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A delusion of Satan : the full story of the Salem witch trials (Rev. [ed.])

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This is an account of the witch-hunts of Salem, Massachusetts, during the winter of 1691.

It describes how a group of girls, stifled with the rigidity of their Puritan lives, started an innocent game of fortune-telling, which rapidly descended into collective hysteria, violent fits and the accusation that many of their neighbours were witches.

The result was more than 100 men, women and children languishing in Salem prison on the charge of witchcraft.

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Hamish Hamilton
0241136725 / 9780241136720
Hardback
25/07/1996
England
English
xvii, 269p., [8]p. of plates : ill.
24 cm
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Previous ed.: U.S.: Doubleday, 1995.