Schiff, Stacy, author.
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
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Notes:
- Provides a fresh view of the Salem witch trials. Stacy Schiff introduces us to the strains on a Puritan adolescent’s life and to the authorities whose delicate agendas were at risk. She illuminates the demands of a rigorous faith, the vulnerability of settlements adrift from the mother country, perched — at a politically tumultuous time — on the edge of what a visitor termed a ‘remote, rocky, barren, bushy, wild-woody wilderness.’ Schiff brings early American anxieties to the fore to align them with our own. In an era of religious provocations, crowdsourcing, and invisible enemies, this story makes more sense than ever. The Witches is Schiff’s account of a seminal episode, a primal American mystery unveiled — in detail and lyrical prose.
- Includes bibliographic references and index.
- The diseases of astonishment — That old deluder — The working of wonders — One of you is a devil — The wizard — A suburb of hell — Now they say there is above seven hundred in all — In these hellish meetings — Our case is extraordinary — Published to prevent false reports — That dark and mysterious season — A long train of miserable consequences.
Subjects:
- Witchcraft — Massachusetts — Salem — History — 17th century.
- Women — Massachusetts — Salem — History — 17th century.
- Trials (Witchcraft) — Massachusetts — Salem — 17th century.
- Salem (Mass.) — History — Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Trials (Witchcraft) fast (OCoLC)fst01156425
- Massachusetts — Salem. fast (OCoLC)fst01205839
- 1600 – 1775 fast
Requested by Kurpiers, R.