Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft

Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft
by Paul Boyer, Stephen Nissenbaum

Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft
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Author: Paul Boyer, Stephen Nissenbaum
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1974-02
ISBN: 0674785266
Number of pages: 231
Publisher: Harvard University Press

Summary of Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft

The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion which had been growing for more than a generation before building toward the climactic witch trials. "Salem Possessed explores the lives of the men and women who helped spin that web and who in the end found themselves entagled in it.

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