415 pages including index. In the Salem Witch Trials Reader, Frances Hill provides-and astutely comments upon-the actual documents from the trial; transcripts of the examinations of suspected witches, eyewitness accounts of "Satanic influence," and the testimony of those who retained their reason and defied the madness. She illustrates the historical background to the witch-hunt and shows how the trials have been represented, and sometimes distorted, by historians-and how they have fired the imaginations of poets, playwrights, and novelists. View More...
