Salem possessed
Subtitle: the social origins of witchcraft
By: Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum.
Contributors: Nissenbaum, Stephen, joint author.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Porter family; Putnam family; Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Salem
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 adn who in the end found themselves entangled in it."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.