num_pages: 297
description: "Mistress Bishop, " said Magistrate Corwin, "you are accused of being a witch. How say you to this charge?""I do not know what a witch is."Immediately the girls in the circle, who were sitting up front in the room, went into fits. They threw themselves on the floor and shrieked and wailed.... They twitched their bodies and howled like forest creatures at the time of the full moon. The howling was a terrible thing to hear. It hit through one's bones with its primitive sound.
language: English
title: A Break With Charity: A Story of the Salem Witch Trials
titlecomplete: A Break With Charity: A Story of the Salem Witch Trials
genres: 17th Century, Historical, Historical Fiction, Childrens, School, Witches, Young Adult, Young Adult Historical Fiction, Teen, Fiction
ratings_count: 5989
places: Massachusetts
publisher: Sagebrush Education Resources