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The true story of the Salem witch hunts / by Zumbusch, Amelie von.;
Describes the events in Salem Village, Massachusetts in 1692 that led to accusations of witchcraft and the death of several villagers.
Subjects: Witchcraft; Trials (Witchcraft);
© 2009., PowerKids,
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Witchcraft : a history in thirteen trials / by Gibson, Marion,1970-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Witchcraft is a ... journey through thirteen witch trials across history, some famous-like the Salem witch trials-and some lesser-known: on Vardø island, Norway, in the 1620s, where an indigenous Sami woman was accused of murder; in France in 1731, during the country's last witch trial, where a young woman was pitted against her confessor and cult leader; in Pennsylvania in 1929 where a magical healer was labelled a 'witch'; in Lesotho in 1948, where British colonial authorities executed local leaders. Exploring how witchcraft became feared, decriminalized, reimagined, and eventually reframed as gendered persecution, Witchcraft takes on the intersections between gender and power, indigenous spirituality and colonial rule, and political conspiracy and individual resistance. Offering a vivid, compelling, and dramatic story, unspooling through centuries, about the men and women who were accused-some of whom survived their trials, and some who did not-Witchcraft empowers the people who were and are victimized and marginalized, giving a voice to those who were silenced by history."--
Subjects: Marginality, Social.; Trials (Witchcraft); Witch hunting; Witchcraft;
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The Salem witch trials / by Rice, Earle;
Includes bibliography and index.
Subjects: Witchcraft; Trials (Witchcraft);
© c1997., Lucent Books,
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Everyone knows your mother is a witch / by Galchen, Rivka,author.;
"Drawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination, sly humor, and intellectual fire for which award-winning author Rivka Galchen's writing is known, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is a tale for our time-the story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Magic realist fiction.; Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630; Keplerin, Katharina, 1547-1622; Trials (Witchcraft);
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The witches : Salem, 1692 / by Schiff, Stacy,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Analyzes the Salem Witch Trials to offer key insights into the role of women in its events while explaining how its tragedies became possible.
Subjects: Trials (Witchcraft); Witchcraft; Women;
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The bewitching / by Dawson, Jill,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Alice Samuel might be old and sharp-tongued, but she's no fool. Visiting her new neighbours in her Fenland village, she suspects Squire Throckmorton's household is not as God-fearing as it seems and finds the children troubled. Yet when one of the daughters accuses her of witchcraft, Alice has no inkling of how quickly matters will escalate and fails to grasp the danger she is in. As evidence mounts against Alice, soon the entire village is swept up in the frenzied persecution of one of their own community.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Paranormal fiction.; Novels.; Samuel, Alice, -1593; Trials (Witchcraft);
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Killing the witches : the horror of Salem, Massachusetts / by O'Reilly, Bill,author.; Dugard, Martin,author.;
"With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestsellers, Bill O'Reilly's Killing series is the most popular series of narrative histories in the world. Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. What began as a mysterious affliction of two young girls who suffered violent fits and exhibited strange behavior soon spread to other young women. Rumors of demonic possession and witchcraft consumed Salem. Soon three women were arrested under suspicion of being witches--but as the hysteria spread, more than 200 people were accused. Thirty were found guilty, twenty were executed, and others died in jail or their lives were ruined. What really happened in Salem? Killing the Witches tells the horrifying story of a colonial town's madness, offering the historical context of similar episodes of community mania during that time, and exploring the evidence that emerged in the Salem trials, in contemporary accounts, and in subsequent investigations. The result is a compulsively readable book about good, evil, and how fear can overwhelm fact and reason"--
Subjects: Trials (Witchcraft); Witches;
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The crucible: a play in four acts / by Miller, Arthur,1915-2005;
A play in four acts on the events during the witchcraft trials in Salem, Mass. in 1692.
Subjects: Witchcraft;
© 1972., Viking Press,
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The Furies / by Lowe, Kathryn A.,author.;
In 1990s England, at an elite boarding school connected to seventeenth-century witch trials, troubled sixteen-year-old Violet is drawn into a circle of friends dabbling in witchcraft to avenge wrongs done to them.
Subjects: Paranormal fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Boarding schools; Friendship; Murder; Revenge; Schools; Boarding schools; Friendship; Murder; Revenge; Schools;
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A cold Highland wind / by Alexander, Tasha,1969-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Lady Emily, husband Colin Hargreaves, and their three sons eagerly embark on a family vacation at Cairnfarn Castle, the Scottish estate of their dear friend Jeremy, Duke of Bainbridge. But a high-spirited celebration at the beginning of their stay comes to a grisly end when the duke's gamekeeper is found murdered on the banks of the loch. Handsome Angus Sinclair had a host of enemies: the fiancée he abandoned in Edinburgh, the young woman who had fallen hopelessly in love with him, and the rough farmer who saw him as a rival for her affections. But what is the meaning of the curious runic stone left on Sinclair's forehead? Clues may be found in the story of Lady MacAllister, wife of the Laird of Cairnfarn Castle, who in 1676 suddenly found herself widowed and thrown out of her home. Her sole companion was a Moorish slave girl who helped her secretly spirit her most prized possessions--a collection of strange books--out of the castle. When her neighbors, wary of a woman living on her own, found a poppet--a doll used to cast spells--and a daisy wheel in her isolated cottage, Lady MacAllister was accused of witchcraft, a crime punishable by death. Hundreds of years later, Lady Emily searches for the link between Lady MacAllister's harrowing witchcraft trial and the brutal death of Sinclair. She must follow a trail of hidden motives, an illicit affair, and a mysterious stranger to reveal the dark side of a seemingly idyllic Highland village"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Hargreaves, Emily, Lady (Fictitious character); Murder;
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