In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 by Mary Beth Norton

In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692

Mary Beth Norton

448 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history dark informative sad slow-paced
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Award-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the Salem witch trials in this startlingly original, meticulously researched, and utterly riveting study. In 1692 the people of Massachusetts were living in fear, and not solely of satanic afflic...

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