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Schiff, Stacy.
The witches
[ANF] :
Salem, 1692 /
Stacy Schiff.
Salem, 1692.
First edition.
New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
2015.
xiv, 498 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, facsimiles ;
25 cm.
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Includes bibliographic references and index.
Cast of characters -- The diseases of astonishment -- That old deluder -- The working of wonders -- One of you is a devil -- The wizard -- A suburb of hell -- Now they say there is above seven hundred in all -- In these hellish meetings -- Our case is extraordinary -- Published to prevent false reports -- That dark and mysterious season -- A long train of miserable consequences.
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.
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1600 - 1775.
Witchcraft
Massachusetts
Salem
History
17th century.
Women
Massachusetts
Salem
History
17th century.
Trials (Witchcraft)
Massachusetts
Salem
17th century.
Trials (Witchcraft.)
Salem (Mass)
History
Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Massachusetts
Salem.
History.
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