Witchcraft In Salem Village In 1692

Author : Shirley Jackson
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780307779885

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The Witchcraft of Salem Village by Shirley Jackson Pdf

Stories of magic, superstition, and witchcraft were strictly forbidden in the little town of Salem Village. But a group of young girls ignored those rules, spellbound by the tales told by a woman named Tituba. When questioned about their activities, the terrified girls set off a whirlwind of controversy as they accused townsperson after townsperson of being witches. Author Shirley Jackson examines in careful detail this horrifying true story of accusations, trials, and executions that shook a community to its foundations.

Author : Stacy Schiff
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316200615

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The Witches by Stacy Schiff Pdf

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when women played the central role in American history. In curious ways, the trials would shape the future republic. As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, THE WITCHES is Stacy Schiff's account of this fantastical story-the first great American mystery unveiled fully for the first time by one of our most acclaimed historians.

Author : Marilynne K. Roach
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1589791320

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The Salem Witch Trials by Marilynne K. Roach Pdf

The Salem Witch Trials is based on over twenty-five years of archival research--including the author's discovery of previously unknown documents--newly found cases and court records. From January 1692 to January 1697 this history unfolds a nearly day-by-day narrative of the crisis as the citizens of New England experienced it.

Author : Winfield Scott Nevins
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1340696274

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Witchcraft in Salem Village In 1692 by Winfield Scott Nevins Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:999482992

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Witchcraft in Salem Village in 1692 by Anonim Pdf

Author : The Editors of TIME-LIFE
Publisher : Time Home Entertainment
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-12
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781547845262

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TIME/LIFE The Salem Witch Trials by The Editors of TIME-LIFE Pdf

The Salem witch trials remain one of the most shocking and studied episodes in American history. Within the span of 15 months, the legal proceedings around the trials swept up at least 144 people, secured the confessions of 54 individuals and led to the execution of 20, mostly women. The hysteria and the accusations reached far beyond the geographic limits of Salem Village, eventually engulfing more than 20 towns and villages in the vicinity. Now, in this Special Edition from TIME-LIFE - The Salem Witch Trials - readers can revisit the witch trials, study their European origins and understand "the climate of fear" both then and now. This Special Edition is also full of historic photographs and images of Salem, the participants, and more, and a special section devoted to modern witchcraft and witches in the movies and on television.

Author : Paul Boyer,Stephen Nissenbaum
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674282667

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Salem Possessed by Paul Boyer,Stephen Nissenbaum Pdf

Tormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh verdicts, nineteen bodies swinging on Gallows Hill. The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion, individual and organized, which had been growing for more than a generation before the witch trials. Salem Possessed explores the lives of the men and women who helped spin that web and who in the end found themselves entangled in it. From rich and varied sources—many previously neglected or unknown—Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum give us a picture of the events of 1692 more intricate and more fascinating than any other in the already massive literature on Salem. “Salem Possessed,” wrote Robin Briggs in The Times Literary Supplement, “reinterprets a world-famous episode so completely and convincingly that virtually all the previous treatments can be consigned to the historical lumber-room.” Not simply a dramatic and isolated event, the Salem outbreak has wider implications for our understanding of developments central to the American experience: the breakup of Puritanism, the pressures of land and population in New England towns, the problems besetting farmer and householder, the shifting role of the church, and the powerful impact of commercial capitalism.

Author : Shannon Knudsen
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780761372554

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Alice Ray and the Salem Witch Trials by Shannon Knudsen Pdf

In 1692, four young girls from the Puritan town of Salem Village, Massachusetts, began acting strangely. They threw fits and cried out. They claimed that the spirits of some townspeople were hurting them. These townspeople were accused of witchcraft and put on trial. The punishment was hanging. When a poor woman and her five-year-old daughter were named as witches, Alice Ray knew it couldn’t be true. She believed they were innocent. But what could a young girl like Alice do to help? Would she be brave enough to stand up for what she knew was right? In the back of this book, you’ll find a script and instructions for putting on a reader’s theater performance of this adventure. At our companion website—www.lerneresource.com—you can download additional copies of the script plus sound effects, background images, and more ideas that will help make your reader’s theater performance a success.

Author : Winfield S. Nevins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3348024234

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Witchcraft in Salem Village by Winfield S. Nevins Pdf

Author : Deodat Lawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1692
Category : Witchcraft
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039127134

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A Brief and True Narrative of Some Remarkable Passages Relating to Sundry Persons Afflicted by Witchcraft, at Salem Village: which Happened from the Nineteenth of March, to the Fifth of April, 1692 by Deodat Lawson Pdf

Author : Winfield S. Nevins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Witchcraft
ISBN : 9333492917

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Witchcraft in Salem Village in 1692 by Winfield S. Nevins Pdf

"Together with a review of the opinions of modern writers and psychologists in regard to outbreak of the evil in America."--T.p.

Author : Bernard Rosenthal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521558204

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Salem Story by Bernard Rosenthal Pdf

Salem Story engages the story of the Salem witch trials by contrasting an analysis of the surviving primary documentation with the way events of 1692 have been mythologised by our culture. Resisting the temptation to explain the Salem witch trials in the context of an inclusive theoretical framework, the book examines a variety of individual motives that converged to precipitate the witch-hunt. Of the many assumptions about the Salem witch trials, the most persistent is that they were instigated by a circle of hysterical girls. Through an analysis of what actually happened - by perusal of the primary materials with the 'close reading' approach of a literary critic - a different picture emerges, one where 'hysteria' inappropriately describes the logical, rational strategies of accusation and confession followed by the accusers, males and females alike.

Author : Emerson W. Baker
Publisher : Pivotal Moments in American Hi
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199890347

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A Storm of Witchcraft by Emerson W. Baker Pdf

Presents an historical analysis of the Salem witch trials, examining the factors that may have led to the mass hysteria, including a possible occurrence of ergot poisoning, a frontier war in Maine, and local political rivalries.

Author : Paul Boyer,Stephen Nissenbaum
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1977-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015058012561

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The Salem Witchcraft Papers by Paul Boyer,Stephen Nissenbaum Pdf

Works Progress Administration created in 1935; name changed in 1939 to Work Projects Administration.

Author : Mary Beth Norton
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307426369

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In the Devil's Snare by Mary Beth Norton Pdf

Award-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the Salem witch trials in this startlingly original, meticulously researched, and utterly riveting study. In 1692 the people of Massachusetts were living in fear, and not solely of satanic afflictions. Horrifyingly violent Indian attacks had all but emptied the northern frontier of settlers, and many traumatized refugees—including the main accusers of witches—had fled to communities like Salem. Meanwhile the colony’s leaders, defensive about their own failure to protect the frontier, pondered how God’s people could be suffering at the hands of savages. Struck by the similarities between what the refugees had witnessed and what the witchcraft “victims” described, many were quick to see a vast conspiracy of the Devil (in league with the French and the Indians) threatening New England on all sides. By providing this essential context to the famous events, and by casting her net well beyond the borders of Salem itself, Norton sheds new light on one of the most perplexing and fascinating periods in our history.