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Salem Story: Reading the Witch Trials of 1692

by Bernard Rosenthal · 1993

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The most persistent assumption about the Salem witch trials remains that they were precipitated by a circle of hysterical girls. This study examines a variety of individual motives that converged to cause the witch hunt as well as the subsequent mythologies that emerged from it.

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adult
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medium · 304 pages

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