| Description |
xii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-296) and index. |
| Contents |
"A biography of a terrible but perfectly normal superstition" -- "Having familiarity with the devil" -- "The evil hand" is upon them -- "Is not this a brand plucked from the burning?" -- "If they are let alone we should all be devils and witches" -- "God will deliver us out of the hands of unmerciful men" -- "God will give you blood to drink" -- "What a sad thing it is to see eight firebrands of hell hanging there" -- "It were better that the suspected witches should escape, than that one innocent person should be condemned" -- "Ruined in the mistaken management of the terrible affair called witchcraft." |
| Summary |
"Between June 10 and September 22, 1692, nineteen people were hanged for practicing witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. One person was pressed to death, and over 150 others were jailed, where still others died and many remained for several months ... a synthesis of the most recent scholarship on the subject, places the trials into the context of the Great European Witch-Hunt, and relates the events of 1692 to witch-hunting throughout seventeenth-century New England"--Page 4 of cover. |
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Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts -- Salem.
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Salem (Mass.) -- History -- Sources.
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Trials (Witchcraft) (OCoLC)fst01156425
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Massachusetts -- Salem.
(OCoLC)fst01205839
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
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| ISBN |
0134425421 |
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9780134425429 |
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