Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy by Malcolm Gaskill

Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy

Malcolm Gaskill

364 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history religion informative slow-paced
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By the spring of 1645, civil war had exacted a terrible toll on England. Disease, hunger, anxiety and lawlessness were rife, and belief in the supernatural was commonplace. In Essex, two gentlemen began interrogating women suspected of witchcraft....

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