Salem witch trials
The Salem witch trials of Colonial America resulted in a number of convictions and executions for witchcraft in 1692 in Massachusetts, the result of a period of factional infighting and Puritan paranoia which led to the deaths of at least 25 people and the imprisonment of scores more.
References
- Marc Aronson, Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials, Simon and Schuster, November, 2003, hardcover, 272 pages, ISBN 0689848641; large-print, Thorndike Press, April, 2004, hardcover, 324 pages, ISBN 078626442X
- Boyer, Paul & Stephen Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft, MJF Books, 1974.
- Starkey, Marion L., The Devil in Massachusetts, Alfred A. Knopf, 1949.
- Miller, Arthur, The Crucible — a play which implicitly compares McCarthyism to a witch-hunt
- Norton, Mary Beth, In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692, Knopf, 2002
- Roach, Marilynne K.,The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-To-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege, Cooper Square Press, 2002.
~ Table of Content ~
| ► | Introduction |
| ► | Background |
| ► | The ending |
| ► | Reasons for the hysteria |
| ► | Participants |
| ► | Note |
| ► | References |
| ► | See also |
| ► | External links |
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