num_pages: 319
description: 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 accused witches that sheds light on the reality behind the legends. Bringing to life stories like that of Eunice Cole tried for attacking a teenage girl with a rock and buried with a stake through her heart; Jane Jacobs a Bostonian so often accused of witchcraft that she took her tormentors to court on charges of slander; and Increase Mather an exorcism-performing minister famed for his knowledge of witches this volume provides a unique tour through the darkest history of English and North American witchcraft never failing to horrify intrigue and delight.
language: English
title: The Penguin Book of Witches
publisher: Penguin Classics