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1. BF1576 .K37 1987

   Confessing to "familiarity with the Devils," Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed in Connecticut in 1648. Ann Hibbens was hanged in Boston in 1656 for afflicting her neighbors through supernatural means. Ann Cole was taken with very strange fits in 1662. She succumbed to possession by the Devil, and fueled an outbreak of witchcraft accusations in Hartford a generation before the notorious events in Salem. Why? More than three hundred year...

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2. BF1576 .U56 Vol 1

   The book attempts to convey the extremely low morale of the settlers in Salem Village and correlate their terrible conditions to the panic of the witchcraft "scourge". To do this, the author goes into fine detail of people's lives to convey the feeling of helplessness and the effects of their ignorance and superstition. He tracks the escalation and eventual resolution of this terror of witchcraft.

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