The witches
Subtitle: Salem, 1692
By: Stacy Schiff
Edition: Large print edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 789
ISBN-13: 9780316387743
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Trials (Witchcraft); Large type books; History; Witchcraft; Women
Other titles: Salem, 1692
Description: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra analyzes the Salem Witch Trials to offer key insights into the role of women in its events while explaining how its tragedies became possible. 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographic references (pages 667-788).
Table of contents: title: Cast of characters; title: The diseases of astonishment; title: That old deluder; title: The working of wonders; title: One of you is a devil; title: The wizard; title: A suburb of hell; title: Now they say there is above seven hundred in all; title: In these hellish meetings; title: Our case is extraordinary; title: Published to prevent false reports; title: That dark and mysterious season; title: A long train of miserable consequences.