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The witches : Salem, 1692 /

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra analyzes the Salem Witch Trials to offer key insights into the role of women in its events while explaining how its tragedies became possible.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schiff, Stacy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Witchcraft > Massachusetts > Salem > History > 17th century.
Women > Massachusetts > Salem > History > 17th century.
Trials (Witchcraft) > Massachusetts > Salem > 17th century.
Salem (Mass.) > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Trials (Witchcraft)
Massachusetts > Salem.
1600 - 1775
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Cast of characters
  • 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.