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Author | : Shirley Jackson |
Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2011-02-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0307779882 |
Download The Witchcraft of Salem Village Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Stories of magic, superstition, and witchcraft were strictly forbidden in the little town of Salem Village. But a group of young girls ignored those rules, spellbound by the tales told by a woman named Tituba. When questioned about their activities, the terrified girls set off a whirlwind of controversy as they accused townsperson after townsperson of being witches. Author Shirley Jackson examines in careful detail this horrifying true story of accusations, trials, and executions that shook a community to its foundations.
Author | : Stacy Schiff |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2015-10-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0316200611 |
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. 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 men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when women played the central role in American history. In curious ways, the trials would shape the future republic. As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, THE WITCHES is Stacy Schiff's account of this fantastical story-the first great American mystery unveiled fully for the first time by one of our most acclaimed historians.
Author | : Mary Beth Norton |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 030742636X |
Download In the Devil's Snare Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Award-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the Salem witch trials in this startlingly original, meticulously researched, and utterly riveting study. In 1692 the people of Massachusetts were living in fear, and not solely of satanic afflictions. Horrifyingly violent Indian attacks had all but emptied the northern frontier of settlers, and many traumatized refugees—including the main accusers of witches—had fled to communities like Salem. Meanwhile the colony’s leaders, defensive about their own failure to protect the frontier, pondered how God’s people could be suffering at the hands of savages. Struck by the similarities between what the refugees had witnessed and what the witchcraft “victims” described, many were quick to see a vast conspiracy of the Devil (in league with the French and the Indians) threatening New England on all sides. By providing this essential context to the famous events, and by casting her net well beyond the borders of Salem itself, Norton sheds new light on one of the most perplexing and fascinating periods in our history.
Author | : Marilynne K. Roach |
Publisher | : Taylor Trade Publications |
Total Pages | : 758 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781589791329 |
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The Salem Witch Trials is based on over twenty-five years of archival research--including the author's discovery of previously unknown documents--newly found cases and court records. From January 1692 to January 1697 this history unfolds a nearly day-by-day narrative of the crisis as the citizens of New England experienced it.
Author | : Emerson W. Baker |
Publisher | : Pivotal Moments in American Hi |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019989034X |
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Presents an historical analysis of the Salem witch trials, examining the factors that may have led to the mass hysteria, including a possible occurrence of ergot poisoning, a frontier war in Maine, and local political rivalries.
Author | : Ulinka Rublack |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Astronomers |
ISBN | : 0198736770 |
Download The Astronomer & the Witch Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In The Astronomer and the Witch, Ulinka Rublack pieces together the tale of this extraordinary episode in Kepler's life, one that takes us to the heart of his changing world.
Author | : Karen Zeinert |
Publisher | : Franklin Watts |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Salem (Mass.) |
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A vivid account of the hysteria that enveloped Salem and of the 19 people who lost their lives as a result.
Author | : Joan Holub |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2015-08-11 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0698412346 |
Download What Were the Salem Witch Trials? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Something wicked was brewing in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. It started when two girls, Betty Parris and Abigail Williams, began having hysterical fits. Soon after, other local girls claimed they were being pricked with pins. With no scientific explanation available, the residents of Salem came to one conclusion: it was witchcraft! Over the next year and a half, nineteen people were convicted of witchcraft and hanged while more languished in prison as hysteria swept the colony. Author Joan Holub gives readers and inside look at this sinister chapter in history.
Author | : Bernard Rosenthal |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521558204 |
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Salem Story engages the story of the Salem witch trials by contrasting an analysis of the surviving primary documentation with the way events of 1692 have been mythologised by our culture. Resisting the temptation to explain the Salem witch trials in the context of an inclusive theoretical framework, the book examines a variety of individual motives that converged to precipitate the witch-hunt. Of the many assumptions about the Salem witch trials, the most persistent is that they were instigated by a circle of hysterical girls. Through an analysis of what actually happened - by perusal of the primary materials with the 'close reading' approach of a literary critic - a different picture emerges, one where 'hysteria' inappropriately describes the logical, rational strategies of accusation and confession followed by the accusers, males and females alike.
Author | : Chadwick Hansen |
Publisher | : Arrow |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1971-01 |
Genre | : Witchcraft |
ISBN | : 9780090039104 |
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Much has been written about the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692, and much has been misunderstood. "The more I studied the documents of what actually took place in the community, "writes Chadwich Hansen, "the more I found myself in opposition to the traditional interpretations. It seems to me that a serious consideration was in order." He argues, for instance, that witchcraft was actually practiced in seventeenth-century New England, as it was in Europe at the same time. Moreover, the behavior of the afflicted persons was not fraudulent, as some have claimed, but pathological: these people were hysterics in the clinical rather than the popular sense of the term. Further still, the clergy did not inspire or take advantage of the witch hunts as has been charged; on the contrary, they were among the chief opponents of the "mass hysteria." Library Journal called this book, ..".The most important scholarly contribution to the literature of witchcraft to appear in many years."