In the devil's snare : the Salem witchcraft crisis of 1692 / Mary Beth Norton.

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Norton, Mary Beth
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage Books, 2003.
Edition:First Vintage Books edition.
Subjects:
Witchcraft > Massachusetts.
Trials (Witchcraft) > Massachusetts > Salem.
Women > Massachusetts > Essex County Region > History.
Massachusetts > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Salem (Mass.) > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Essex County Region (Mass.) > History.
Physical Description:436 pages ; 21 cm
Format: Book
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.