num_pages: 231
description: 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 and who in the end found themselves entagled in it.
language: English
title: Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft
titlecomplete: Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft
genres: Anthropology, Historical, Religion, Witches, Nonfiction, School, American History, History, Sociology, Witchcraft
ratings_count: 1254
awards: awardedAt: 126259200000
name: John H. Dunning Prize in American History, awardedAt: 157795200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: History
publisher: Harvard University Press