A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials

by Laurie Winn Carlson (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2000

  $14.72

  Offers an innovative, well-grounded explanation of witchcraft's link to organic illness. While most historians have concentrated on the accused, this book focuses on the afflicted. It compares the symptoms recorded in colonial diaries to those of the encephalitis epidemic and argues that the victims suffered from the same disease.