Witches. Salem, 1692
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This story began in Massachusetts in the unusually harsh winter of 1692, when the daughter of a local priest suddenly began screaming and convulsing. A year later, when it was over, 19 men and women turned up dead. The tranquil Puritan colony had become a stage on which truly horrifying events played out. The Salem Witch Hunt is the last echo of the Middle Ages in a new age, a unique historical event that has been the basis for many movies and fiction novels, and without a doubt the most famous witch trial in the world. It involved both ordinary citizens and prominent New England politicians: no one was spared - even the priest did not escape the gallows. Everyone turned against each other: neighbors blamed neighbors, parents, children of each other. What was it - a relic of medieval persecution, a town-wide mass psychosis? Stacy Schiff, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and brilliant storyteller, unravels the mysteries that have shrouded Salem for centuries. For the first time, the setting in late seventeenth-century Massachusetts is explored in such depth and detail, and the witch persecution is recreated so fully and psychologically accurate. In Schiff's talented account, the Salem events present the reader with a true detective investigation, equally important to scholarship and fascinating to a wide range of readers.
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