Book description
Trial documents and contemporary narratives are used in this discussion of the practice of witchcraft in seventeenth-century New England.
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1 author picked Witchcraft at Salem as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
While I do not agree with all of the author’s conclusions, this book showed me the prevalence of folk-charms in the culture, as well as the psychological reactions humans have to stress that could explain some of what happened with the “bewitched.”
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