Title:
The devil in Massachusetts : a modern enquiry into the Salem witch trials / Marion L. Starkey.
Author:
Starkey, Marion Lena.
Publication Information:
New York : Anchor Books, 1989, ©1949.
Call Number:
KFM2478.8.W5 S8 1969
Abstract:
This historical narrative of the Salem witch trials takes its dialogue from actual trial records but applies modern psychiatric knowledge to the witchcraft hysteria. Starkey's sense of drama also vividly recreates the atmosphere of pity and terror that fostered the evil and suffering of this human tragedy.
Electronic Access:
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random042/89038988.html
Edition:
Anchor books ed.
ISBN:
9780385035095
Physical Description:
310 pages ; 21 cm
General Note:
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1949.
Contents:
Preface -- The easiest room in Hell -- Young people's circle -- The possessed -- Tituba -- Gospel witch -- "What sin unrepented of?" -- John Procter's Jade -- The weird sisters -- Small black minister -- Puritan knight -- Democracy for witches -- Village circe -- Damned for the glory of God -- Blood to drink -- The Devil in Andover -- On Gallows Hill -- Eight firebrands of Hell -- The ghost of Mary Esty -- Jail delivery -- The Devil and Cotton Mather -- Village purge -- "We walked in clouds" -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
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