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100 1 _aSchiff, Stacy.
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245 1 0 _aWitches, The: Salem, 1692 /
_cSchiff, Stacy.
250 _aSecend Impression edition
260 _bW&N,
_c2015.
300 _a512 pages ;
_c 24 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aomedierad
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501 _aP.B
520 _aIt began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece started to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before nineteen men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbours accused neighbours, parents accused children, husbands accused wives, children accused their parents, and siblings each other. Vividly capturing the dark, unsettled atmosphere of seventeenth-century America, Stacy Schiff's magisterial history draws us into this anxious time. She shows us how a band of adolescent girls brought the nascent colony to its knees, and how quickly the epidemic of accusations, trials, and executions span out of control. Above all, Schiff's astonishing research reveals details and complexity that few other historians have seen. Every detail of colonial life just decades after the first landing - family, farming, praying, housekeeping, dangers of life at wilderness's edge, estrangement from England, the pressures of a life dominated by Biblical thought - is rendered with a clarity that makes almost inconceivable events comprehensible. As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, as magnificently written as it is deeply researched, THE WITCHES breathes new life into one of history's most enduring mysteries.
650 7 _aMassachusetts--Salem.
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650 7 _aTrials (Witchcraft).
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650 7 _aWitchcraft.
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650 7 _aWomen.
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