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Massachusetts settlers led difficult lives; each and every player in the Salem drama endured hardships barely conceivable today. Mercy Short, probably the most “bewitched” girls, watched as Indians butchered her parents; Puritan minister Cotton Mather outlived all but three of his fifteen children. Such tragedies shaped behavior and, as Foulds argues, in the end played a part in the witch hunt’s outcome. A compelling “who’s who” to Salem witchcraft, Death in Salem profiles each and every of these historical personalities as it asks: Why used to be this person targeted?