1. Farber dramatically describes the travails and anguish of someone who is supposedly bewitched. Read Patricia Clapp's Witches' Children: A Story of Salem (1982) and Elizabeth George Speare's The Witch of Blackbird Pond (1958) and compare and contrast their versions with the one presented by Farber.

2. Mercy Short relates the various Tawny Indian foods that she ate while a captive. Compile a list of these and other tribal foods of the colonial era.

Create a book based on these foods.

Add other details that may be relevant such as those foods that were eaten for medicinal purposes.

3. Review the foods noted in (2) as to the feasibility of preparing them using contemporary foods and methods.

Choose one or two foods and prepare them. Evaluate the results. Compare your view with Mercy's assessment.

4. Investigate the Indian customs noted in the book and determine which ones...