Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft by Paul S. Boyer, Stephen Nissenbaum

Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft

Paul S. Boyer, Stephen Nissenbaum

231 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Tormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh verdicts, nineteen bodies swinging on Gallows Hill.The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion, individual and organized, which had bee...

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