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Title:
The witches : Salem, 1692
Author:
Schiff, Stacy.
Personal Author:
Schiff, Stacy.
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Physical Description:
xiv, 498 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cm
Summary:
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.
Language:
English
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.
Subject Term:
Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History -- 17th century.

Women -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History -- 17th century.

Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- 17th century.

Trials (Witchcraft) (OCoLC)fst01156425
Geographic Term:
Salem (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Massachusetts -- Salem. (OCoLC)fst01205839
Genre:
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN:
9780316200608
Format :
Book