Salem possessed : the social origins of witchcraft /

"The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion which had been growing for more than a generation before building toward the climactic witch trials. Salem Possessed explores the lives of the men and women who helped spin that web and who in the end fo...

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Main Authors:	Boyer, Paul S. (Author), Nissenbaum, Stephen (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England : Harvard University Press, [1974]
Subjects:	Porter family. Putnam family. Putnam. Porter. Geschichte 1600-1700. Witchcraft > Massachusetts > Salem. Witchcraft > Social aspects > Massachusetts > Salem. Witchcraft > history Sorcellerie > Massachusetts > Salem. Sorcellerie > Aspect social > Massachusetts > Salem. HISTORY > Social History. Witchcraft > Social aspects. Witchcraft. Witchcraft > Massachusetts. Hexenglaube Hekserij. Salem, Procès de (1692) Sorcellerie > Procès > États-Unis > Salem (Mass.) Witchcraft > History. Massachusetts > Salem. United States, Massachusetts, Essex, Salem > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. United States, Massachusetts, Essex, Salem > Genealogy. Salem, Mass. Salem (Mass.) > History. Biography Student Collection. Biographies.