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Deliverance from evil (Pbk. ed.)

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Salem, Massachusetts, Winter 1692: In the parsonage of Reverend Samuel Parris, two young girls are seated by the fire, playing at fortune-telling as snow falls softly outside.

What starts as a game sends one of the girls into a hysterical trance, and a small town begins its descent into madness.

Accusations of witchcraft would destroy lives and old scores would be settled.

Men at all levels of society quickly seize on fear and delusion to pursue their personal and political ends.

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Product Details
Duckworth Overlook
0715642758 / 9780715642757
eBook
813.6
20/06/2011
England
English
268 pages
"First published in hardback in the USA in 2011 by Duckworth Overlook"--T.p. verso Derived record based on unviewed print version record.