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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_festivals

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English festivals are the Christian and secular festivals that are traditionally celebrated in England. Most festivals are observed throughout England but some, such as Oak Apple Day, Souling, Rushbearing, Bawming the Thorn and Hocktide are local to certain regions.

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English Festivals include the Christian festivals celebrated throughout England. Most festivals are celebrated throughout England in various regions, but some are specific to certain regions. New Year's Day is celebrated similar to other countries around the world with a celebration on December 31 at midnight for the new year and fireworks.[1] Plough Monday indicates the start England's agricultural year generally celebrated on the first Monday after January 6.[5][6] Valentine's Day or Saint Valentine's Day celebrated on February 14 honors the saint Valentinus with a celebration of love and romance.[9]10] Mother's Day falls on the fourth Sunday of Lent[21][22] where one's appreciation to their mother is celebrated traditionally. Easter Day or Resurrection Sunday varies on the date it is celebrated, and celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ.[24] Hocktide indicates the festival that occurs on the Monday and Tuesday in the second week after Easter.[28]

April Fool's Day occurs on April 1 where a celebration of practical jokes and hoaxes are told followed up with the saying "April fool(s)" to indicate the joke. Saint George's Day or the Feast of Saint George celebrates the saint's death in the Dioclentianic Persecution with a feast on April 23.[31] May Day consists of May Day Eve, May Day, and Jack in the Green. May Day occurs on the first day of May as the indication of the start of summer, including festivities and celebrations of the upcoming springtime fertility.[39][43] Oak Apple Day commonly called Royal Oak Day or Restoration Day celebrated on May 29 indicates the restoration of the English Monarchy in May 1660.[49] Bawming the Thorn is celebrated on the Saturday that falls nearest to Midsummer's Day in Appleton Thorn where the Thorn tree is decorated in celebration.[54]

Rushbearing continues to occur in Warcop and Grasmere, in Cumbria where a festival in thrown as rushes are brought to the floor of the parish church to be strewn.[55] Lammas corn festival celebrated on August 1[57] marks an annual wheat harvest and the first harvest festival of the year. A loaf from the new crop was typically brought to the church to be blessed.[58] Harvest Festival occurs on the Sunday nearest the Harvest Moon for a celebration of successful harvests with singing, food, and decoration.[62] Halloween is celebrated on October 31 with a celebration of the dead. Traditions of trick or treating, dressing up in costumes, and mischief occur.[63][67] St Clement's Day celebrated on November 23 includes a festival where blacksmiths gather to practice their art while also celebrating St Clement[86] and games with apples.[87] Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes Night occurs on November 5 in the United Kingdom to celebrate King James I survival of an attack plotted to kill him. It is celebrated with excessive fireworks.[91] Christmas on December 25 celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ.[95][96][97] Christmas is celebrated with decorations involving a Christmas tree and lights.[98]

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Elizabeth Booth Article:

Annotated Bibliography: Bibliographic citation: Woodward, William Eliot. Records of Salem Witchcraft, Copied from the Original Documents Volume 2. Hardpress Publishing, 2012.

Here's what the source is about and where/how we'll use it in our Wikipedia article: This section of text is about Elizabeth Booth and an occurrence of her being accused of witchcraft. We will use it to develop the Reputation section in the table of contents.

Bibliographic citation: Peter Grund (2007) The Anatomy of Correction: Additions, Cancellations, and Changes in the Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Trials, Studia Neophilologica, 79:1, 3-24, DOI: 10.1080/00393270701287439

Here's what the source is about and where/how we'll use it in our Wikipedia article: This article was about another occurrence of the Booth's and witchcraft. We will use it in our Reputation section as well.

Wikipedia Article Group Plan: Elizabeth Booth

Describe what's already in the stub you plan to expand. - The article has three sections; a lead section, biography, and references. In the lead section there is one sentence on general information about Elizabeth Booth. In the biography section it is mostly an overview of her connection to witchcraft, and some information about her family and important people in her life. There are four references in the reference section. There is a Salem Witch Trial table with information about people accused of witchcraft, and if they survived or not, and their punishment of death.

1.	How long is the article, currently? (word count, not including citations) The article is currently 109 words without citations. 2.	What's included in the current table of contents? There is currently no table of contents. 3.	How many sources are there now? There are currently four sources.

Describe what you propose the revised article to look like: Our article will be focused on Elizabeth Booth and these aspects of her life. 1. Early Life 2. Historical Legacy 3. Reputation 4. Married and children 5. Death and afterwards 6. Media 7. References

Describe which part(s) of the article each team member will be working on: Victoria will doing the early life, Historical Legacy, and Death and Afterwards. Emma will be doing Reputation and Married and Children. We will both be looking for images or drawings to put in the article as well putting our references in.

Lead section
Elizabeth Booth was born in 1674 and was one of the accusers in the Salem Witch Trials. She grew in Salem, Massachusetts being the second eldest of ten children. When she was sixteen she was accused of being a part of witchcraft. When she was eighteen, she began accusing people (seven on record) of being apart of Witchcraft. Four on record were executed due to Elizabeth's testimony. After the Witch Trials, Elizabeth married Israel Shaw and had kids. Her death date is not on record.

Life before the trial
Elizabeth Booth was born in 1674 in the Salem village to George Booth Sr. and Alice Temple. Her parents got married some time before 1671 in Lynn/Salem, Massachusetts. She was the second eldest of her ten siblings. Her siblings include: George Booth Jr., Alice Booth , Benjamin Booth, Bridget Booth, Mary Booth, Rebecca Booth, Susanna Booth, and Zachariah Booth. Aling with her ten sibling she has two in-law siblings. When Elizabeth was five-years-old she was baptized on May 19, 1678 in Salem, Massachusetts along with some of siblings: Bridget, Rebecca, and Zachariah. When Elizabeth was eight-years-old, her biological father, a woodworker, passed away. Her mother remarried and then her stepfather passed away four years later. Finally, when she was eighteen-years-old, she claimed that she afflicted by witchcraft and became one of the six accusers of the Salem Witch Trials.

Accused
Elizabeth Booth was known for being apart of the Salem Witch Trials. Commotion about witches in Salem began in January 1692. Witchcraft was first suspected from the Parris household, a family in the Salem village. Reverend Samuel Parris was planning to complete schooling at Harvard University, but never ended up finishing, so he had to settle for this small job in Salem. After seeing this happen, Betty Paris and Abilgail Williams, nine and eleven years old experimented with white magic. In February 1692 both Betty and Abigail began acting suspicious, which caught the attention of many. The girls fell into trances, crouched in the corner of rooms, saying things that were not sensible, and threw fits which consisted of screaming and epileptic symptoms. "Their bodies supposedly twisted as though their bones were made of putty." This behavior spread to six girls in Salem village, one being Elizabeth Booth. Elizabeth was sixteen years old. An assortment of doctors came to Salem to look at the girls, but nothing was conculded from their behavior. Then, Dr. William Griggs disgnosed the symptoms as witchcraft. The girls continued to have these symptoms, having fits, and then after being perfectly fine. "Asked what or who had caused them to suffer so, they could not answer." Reverend Paris had a slave, named Tituba. There were rumors that she told the girls stories in the reverneds house, and did other sorts of practices. People began being questioned for suspicious behavior that made the girls act like this. Tituba was questioned, and confessed she knew of four witches and knew about behavior and actions they took. She confessed that she in fact tried to murder children while being under a specter. This confession made the girls claim of seeing specters valid, and helped with the witch trials. Elizabeth later on then became the assuser.

Accuser
Elizabeth’s historical legacy is being one of the six accusers in the 1692 Salem Witch Trials in Salem, Massachusetts. When Elizabeth was eighteen-years-old, she claimed that she was afflicted by witchcraft. Throughout the trials, there are records indicating that she accused nine different people of witchcraft. On record, there are five people known that were executed due to her testimonies. Her accusers include: John and Elizabeth Proctor, their fifteen-year-old daughter Sarah, William and Benjamin Proctor (two of their sons), Woody Proctor, Giles and Martha Corey, Job Tookey, and Wilmont Redd.

Specific testimonies
Elizabeth’s historical legacy is being one of the six accusers in the 1692 Salem Witch Trials in Salem, Massachusetts. When Elizabeth was eighteen-years-old, she claimed that she was afflicted by witchcraft. Throughout the trials, there are records indicating that she accused nine different people of witchcraft. On record, there are five people known that were executed due to her testimonies. Her accusers include: John and Elizabeth Proctor, their fifteen-year-old daughter Sarah, William and Benjamin Proctor (two of their sons), Woody Proctor, Giles and Martha Corey, Job Tookey, and Wilmont Redd. On May 20, 1692, Elizabeth made accusations that John and Elizabeth Proctor had committed murder of a minimum of four people. She testified that ghosts had come her and told her that they were killed by them and that they needed to be stopped. Her testimony, alongside her sister Alice and her mother’s support, is was convicted the Proctors of witchcraft and sentenced to execution. However, Elizabeth Proctor was pregnant with her sixth child, so she was placed in jail. Once the trials ended, Elizabeth Proctor was released. Following the Proctor’s trial, she then accused Goody Proctor of murder/witchcraft. She testified that her deceased stepfather came to her and told her that Goody had killed him. Later, Elizabeth would accuse Giles Corey of "acted as a ringleader" when "fifty specters had flooded into their rural home for a devil's communion of wine and bread." He spent five months in jail bounded by chains before he was stoned to death. On June 8, 1692, Elizabeth testified that Martha Corey (Giles Corey’s wife) had murdered Thomas Goold Senyer. She said that “Thomas Goold Senyer came to her and told her that Martha said she would murder him if he didn’t do well by Goodman parker childringe.” On September 22, 1962, just three days after her husband’s execution, she was convicted and hung. She was one of the last people to be executed due to the Salem Witch Trials. On that same day, Wilmont Redd was also executed for affliction of witchcraft towards Elizabeth Booth despite most evidence being speculation and not factual. Elizabeth also claimed the Job Trooney tried to afflict her and others with witchcraft. However, along with her testimony, another accuser, Susannah Sheldon, also testified against Job Trooney. They claimed on June 7, 1692, that he made eight other people in the town cry and want revenge. They also claimed that “he looked as red as blood.” However, the jury ruled that Sheldon wasn’t credible sources due to her testimony being overly visual and dramatic. Due to that ruling it extended onto Elizabeth’s testimony against Tooney; meaning that he couldn’t be convicted due to lack of substantial evidence.

Specifics of trials
One of her biggest accuser cases was against John and Elizabeth Proctor. She then went on to accuse their daughter, Sarah Proctor. Elizabeth's biggest reputation was being one of the accused to then being the accuser and using her experience agaisnt people. The records show that twenty five people in Salem, MA were executed, or they were sentenced to life in jail. During the which trials, different tests were performed on people that were accused in order to determine if they were in fact witches. One common test that was a good indication of whether the accused was a witch was called the "touching test." To begin this test an affected person would need to throw a tantrum, and then they would have the person being accused touch the person throwing the fit. They did this and concluded if the tantrum stopped after being touch, the accused was a witch because they believed "the 'evil toxins' that originally tormented the afflicted soul returned back to uts host." A lot of people did not want to come forward, so the courts often used a form of torture to get a confession. "Dunking" was a common form of this where someone who was accused would continuously be dunked underwater until the court received a confession.

Marriage and children
Elizabeth's grew up in a home where both her father and step father passed away in the span of four years. Her father passed away when she was just eight years old. Her mother, Alice, remarried to George Booth, but just four years after their marriage, he passed away. She grew up having to help her mother provide for the family, which was now her mother Alice, her younger brother George, and younger sister Alice. Elizabeth worried about her marital status and if she would have any prospects after these two tragedies occurred in her family, so soon after one another. Two years after the witchcraft trials, Elizabeth Booth married her husband Israel Shaw on December 26, 1695. She was twenty two years old and the two were married in Salem, Essex co., MA. Israel Shaw was born in July of 1680, his parents were William Shaw I and Elizabeth Fraile. He has four older siblings, being the youngest. Elizabeth Booth and Israel Shaw had two children. Their first son Israel was born on December 16 1698. They had a daughter Susanna who was born roughly five years later on September 29, 1703. There is no information regarding their death and if they had children.

Death
After Elizabeth's trials, when she was twenty-two, she married Israel Shaw on December 26, 1695 and had kids after. It has been said that after the trials, the six girls got married, changed their names, and moved away from Salem. However, it has not been confirmed that all six girls moved away from Salem. It has been said that after the trials, the accusers were “lost to history” by a Salem historian. There has only been one public apology from the accusers of the Salem Witch Trials, Anne Putnam. During the trials, she accused sixty-two people of witchcraft. She claimed that she was possessed by the devil himself. There is currently no present record of when or how Elizabeth Booth Shaw passed away.