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The witches Salem, 1692 /

It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated...

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Main Author: Schiff, Stacy,
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Physical Description: xiv, 498 pages, 16 pages unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
History of science, philosophy, and culture in Indian civilization. -- Volume IX, -- Colonial period.
History.
Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History -- 17th century.
Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History -- 17th century.
Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 17th century.
United States -- History -- State & Local.
United States.
Salem (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Online Access: Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • The diseases of astonishment
  • That old deluder
  • The working of wonders
  • One of you is a devil
  • The wizard
  • A suburb of hell
  • Now they say there is above seven hundred in all
  • In these hellish meetings
  • Our case is extraordinary
  • Published to prevent false reports
  • That dark and mysterious season
  • A long train of miserable consequences.

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