A Delusion of Satan: Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials

by Frances Hill (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1996

  $6.66

  This is an account of the witch-hunts of Salem, Massachusetts, during the winter of 1691. It describes how a group of girls, stifled with the rigidity of their Puritan lives, started an innocent game of fortune-telling, which rapidly descended into collective hysteria, violent fits and the accusation that many of their neighbours were witches. The result was more than 100 men, women and children languishing in Salem prison on the charge of witchcraft.

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $8.17

  Frances Hill describes how a group of girls, stifled with the rigidity of their puritan lives, started an innocent game of fortune-telling, which rapidly descended into collective hysteria, violent fits and the accusation that many of their neighbours were witches. It is the story of how more than 100 men, women and children languished in Salem prison on the charge of witchcraft. This work tells in clear and factual terms what actually happended in Salem, drawing on insights from contemporary psychology and feminism.