A delusion of Satan : the full story of the Salem witch trials
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A delusion of Satan : the full story of the Salem witch trials
Da Capo Press, 1997
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Originally published: New York : Doubleday, c1995
Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-255) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
During the bleak winter of 1691 in the rigid Puritan community of Salem Village, Massachusetts, a group of young girls began experiencing violent fits, allegedly tormented by Satan and the witches who worshipped him. From the girls' initial denouncing of a black slave, their accusations soon multiplied; in less than two years nineteen men and women were hanged, one was pressed to death, and over a hundred others were imprisoned and impoverished.This evenhanded and insightful history illuminates this horrifying episode with visceral clarity, from the opportunistic Putnam clan, who fanned the crisis to satisfy personal vendettas and greed, to four-year-old "witch" Dorcas Good, chained to a dank prison wall in darkness till she went mad. By placing the distant period of the Salem witch trials in the larger context of more contemporary eruptions of mass hysteria and intolerance, the author has created a work as thought-provoking as it is emotionally powerful.
目次
Introduction * Part One Sowing the Dragons Teeth A Witch Cake The Hand of Satan The Nightmare of a Religion New England Night-Birds * Part Two A Thing Like a Man Brother Against Brother Church of Putnam As Breath into the Wind * Part Three The Yellow Bird Secret Enemies Diabolical Malice One of You is a Devil Apparitions of a Hundred Persons A Black Man with an Hat
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