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Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem (History
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Include books by the same authorThe Penguin Book of Witches
Katherine Howe · 294 pages
"Chilling real-life accounts of witches, from medieval Europe through colonial America from a manual for witch hunters written by King James himself in 1597, to court documents from the Salem witch trials of 1692, to newspaper coverage of a woman stoned to death on the streets of Philadelphia while the Continental Congress met, The Penguin Book of Witches is a treasury of historical accounts of ac
Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts
Anne Llewellyn Barstow · 272 pages
The Malleus Maleficarum
Heinrich Kramer, Jakob Sprenger · 278 pages
Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials
Marc Aronson · 288 pages
What happened in Salem? Sifting through the facts, myths, half-truths, misinterpretations and theories the book presents a vivid narrative of one of the mysteries of American history.
Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
Marilynne K. Roach · 445 pages
"What was it like to be there and, if you were lucky, to live through it? In a compelling combination of narrative and groundbreaking historical research, Salem Witch Trial scholar Marilynne K. Roach vividly brings the terrifying times to life while skillfully illuminating the lives of the accused, the accusers, and the afflicted."--P. [4] of cover.
The Witchcraft of Salem Village
Shirley Jackson · 146 pages
Describes the social and religious conditions surrounding the Salem witch hunts, the extensive trials and executions, and the aftermath of the hysteria.
How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women
Zoe Venditozzi · 320 pages
The Witches: Salem, 1692
Stacy Schiff · 512 pages
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 80-year-old man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involv
In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
Mary Beth Norton · 448 pages
"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.". "Now, Mary Beth Norton - one of our most admired historians - gives us a unique account of the events at Salem, helping us
Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft
Paul S. Boyer, Stephen Nissenbaum · 231 pages
"The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion which had been growing for more than a generation before building toward the climactic witch trials. Salem Possessed explores the lives of the men and women who helped spin that web adn who in the end found themselves entangled in it."--Page 4 of cover.
A Delusion Of Satan: The Full Story Of The Salem Witch Trials
Frances Hill · 269 pages
The Salem witch-hunt and trials have captured the attention and imagination of young and old for centuries. Now Frances Hill guides us through the thickets of history and explains in clear and factual terms exactly what went on during that horrifying period between 1691 and 1693 when over one hundred men, women, and children were shackled in the dank prisons of Salem, charged with witchcraft. U
The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Inquiry into the Salem Witch Trials
Marion L. Starkey · 322 pages
The Night Battles: Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries
Carlo Ginzburg · 216 pages
Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives, the book recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centered on the benandanti. These men and women regarded themselves as professional anti-witches, who (in dream-like states) apparently fought ritual battles against witches and wizards, to protect their villages and harvests. If they won, the harvest would be good, if they lost, there would be
The Devils of Loudun
Aldous Huxley · 374 pages
In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire convent of nuns in what was the most sensational case of mass possession and sexual hysteria in history. Grandier maintained his innocence to the end and four years after his death the nuns were still
Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
Keith Thomas · 716 pages
Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults of the Devil to the use of the same charms to recover stolen goods. At the same time the Protestant Reformation attempted to take the magic out of religion, and scientists were developing new explana
Marvel 1602
Neil Gaiman · 248 pages
Marvel 1602 is an eight-issue comic book limited series published in 2003 by Marvel Comics. The limited series was written by Neil Gaiman, penciled by Andy Kubert, and digitally painted by Richard Isanove; Scott McKowen illustrated the distinctive scratchboard covers. The eight-part series takes place in a timeline where Marvel superheroes have been transplanted to the Elizabethan era; faced with
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare · 249 pages
Orphaned Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at the cold, bleak shores of Connecticut Colony, that her new home will never be like the shimmering Caribbean island she left behind. In her relatives' stern Puritan community, she feels like a tropical bird that has flown to the wrong part of the world, a bird that is now caged and lonely. The only place where Kit feels completely free is
The Betrayal
R.L. Stine · 168 pages
The saga of the feud between the Goode and Fier families begins during the witch hunts in Massachusetts in the late seventeenth century.
The Witchfinder's Sister
Beth Underdown · 368 pages
"A debut literary historical thriller based on the witch hunts in 1640's England--the most intense in English history--in which Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder General, convicted more than a hundred women of witchcraft. In 1645, Alice Hopkins returns to her brother's house in disgrace, husbandless and pregnant. The brother she remembers is now a grown man and he's hunting witches: women who live
Witch Child
Celia Rees · 261 pages
In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
Marvin Harris · 276 pages
This book challenges those who argue that we can change the world by changing the way people think. The author shows that no matter how bizarre a people's behavior may seem, it always stems from concrete social and economic conditions. It is by isolating and identifying these conditions that we will be able to understand and cope with some of our own apparently senseless life styles. In a devastat