The Salem Witch Trials Reader by Frances Hill

Since witch accusers have also often been womenprobably more often than menthe explanation cannot simply be mans fear and hatred of females. For those fascinated by the Salem witch trials, this is compelling reading and the sourcebook. Frances Hill, A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials 2 likes Like No one has ever satisfactorily explained why witches have mostly been women. Frances Hill is a historian, novelist, and journalist whose previous books include A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials Reader.

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etina (cs) Deutsch (de) English (en) Español. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for The Salem Witch Trials Reader are 9780786748389, 0786748389 and the print ISBNs are 9780306809460, 030680946X. The Salem witch trials reader by Frances Hill, 2000, Da Capo Press edition, in English. Always drawing on firsthand documents, she illustrates the historical background to the witchhunt and shows how the trials have been represented, and sometimes distorted, by historians- and how they have fired the imaginations of poets, playwrights, and novelists. The Salem Witch Trials Reader is written by Frances Hill and published by Da Capo Press. In The Salem Witch Trials Reader, Frances Hill provides and astutely comments upon the actual documents from the trial- examinations of suspected witches, eyewitness accounts of Satanic influence, as well as the testimony of those who retained their reason and defied the madness. Within two years, twenty men and women are hanged or pressed to death and over a hundred others imprisoned and impoverished. Against the backdrop of a Puritan theocracy threatened by change, in a population terrified not only of eternal damnation but of the earthly dangers of Indian massacres and recurrent smallpox epidemics, a small group of girls denounces a black slave and others as worshipers of Satan.

The Salem Witch Trials Reader by Frances Hill