In the devil's snare the Salem witchcraft crisis of 1692
In January 1692 in Salem Village, Massachusetts, two young girls began to suffer from inexplicable fits. Seventeen months later, after legal action had been taken against 144 people, 20 of them put to death, the ignominious Salem witchcraft trials finally came to an end. Mary Beth Norton gives us a...
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2002.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Under an evil hand
- Gospel women
- Pannick at the Eastward
- Dreadfull apparition of a minister
- Many offenders in custody
- Endeavors of the judges
- Burroughs their ringleader
- All sorts of objections
- New witch-land.
