A fascinating guidebook that reveals the true story of the Salem witch trials and describes more than fifty important sites you can visit today. This edition updates the original 2002 edition.
During the bleak winter of 1692 in the rigid Puritan community of Salem Village, Massachusetts, a group of young girls began experiencing violent fits, allegedly tormented by Satan and the witches wh
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 epidemi