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Salem story : reading the witch trials of 1692

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
Print Book, English, 1995, ©1993
1st pbk. ed View all formats and editions
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1995, ©1993
Church history
xi, 286 pages ; 23 cm
9780521558204, 9780521440615, 0521558204, 0521440610
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Dark eve
Girls of salem
Boys and girls together
Jone 10, 1692
July 19, 1692
August 19, 1692
George burroughs and the mathers
September 22, 1692
Assessing an inextricable storm
Salem story