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The Salem Witch Trials: A 17th-Century Mystery Unfolding in Salem Village

An early historical account of the Salem witch trials that examines the widespread belief in witchcraft and the legal proceedings that shaped the legacy of early Massachusetts.

The Story of the Salem Witch Trials is a comprehensive history of the infamous 1692 witch-hunts in Salem, Massachusetts, providing a unique and accessible approach to an often misunderstood subject. It covers the complex decisions made by those responsible for the trials and highlights their actions that turned an otherwise minor event into a crisis that has captivated American history for over three centuries.

Explores the social, religious, and cultural forces behind the Salem witch trials and their lasting impact.

An examination of the 1692 Salem witchcraft trials, their antecedents, and the evolving historical interpretations.

Frances Hill explores the Salem witch trials of 1691–1693, unraveling the social, psychological, and feminist forces that turned ordinary citizens into accusers and condemned over a hundred people to death or imprisonment.

The essays in this handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries. During these years witches were thought to be evil people who used magical power to inflict physical harm or misfortune on their neighbours. Witches were also believed to have made pacts with the devil and sometimes to have worshipped him at nocturnal assemblies known as sabbaths. These beliefs provided the basis for defining witchcraft as a secular and ecclesiastical crime and prosecuting tens of thousands of women and men for this offence. The trials resulted in as many as fifty thousand executions. These essays study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingdoms and territories of Europe and in English, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies in the Americas.

Six Women of Salem traces the lives of the accused, accusers, and the afflicted during the 1692 witch trials, blending narrative and research to illuminate 17th‑century social conditions in colonial Massachusetts.