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Death in Salem: The Private Lives Behind The 1692 Witch Hunt

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Salem witchcraft will all the time have a magnetic pull on the American psyche. Right through the 1692 witch trials, more than 150 people were arrested. An estimated 25 million Americans—including writer Diane Foulds—are descended from the twenty individuals executed. What happened to our ancestors? Death in Salem is the first book to take a clear-eyed look at this complex time, by examining the lives of the witch trial participants from a personal standpoint.  

 

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?

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