The Salem witch trials
By: Laura Marvel, book editor.
Contributors: Marvel, Laura.
Series: At issue in history
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History -- 17th century -- Juvenile literature.; Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- Juvenile literature.; Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts -- Salem.; Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Salem.; Trials (Witchcraft) -- Salem (Mass.) -- History -- 17th century -- Juvenile literature.; Witchcraft -- Salem (Mass.) -- Juvenile literature.; Salem (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Salem (Mass.) -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Description: Presents some theories regarding factors leading to the seventeenth-century witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, and possible explanations for the behavior and confessions of those accused.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-139) and index.
Table of contents: value: Witch-hunt is Salem in 1692; value: Motivated the "Aflicted" girls?; value: Would the innocent confess?