The Salem witch trials reader
By: by Frances Hill.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: [Cambridge, Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
Subjects: Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History -- Sources.; Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts -- Salem.; Salem (Mass.) -- History -- Sources.
Genres: Sources.
Description: "In The Salem Witch Trials Reader, Frances Hill provides - and astutely comments upon - the actual documents from the trial: transcripts of the examinations of suspected witches, eyewitness accounts of "Satanic influence," and the testimony of those who retained their reason and defied the madness.

Always drawing on first-hand sources, she illustrates the historical background to the witchhunt and shows how the trials have been represented, and sometimes distorted, by historians - and how they have fired the imaginations of poets, playwrights, and novelists."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.