Killing the Witches

Killing the Witches The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts - Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series

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Publisher's Synopsis

'Killing the Witches' revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. What began as a mysterious affliction of two young girls who suffered violent fits and exhibited strange behaviour soon spread to other young women. Rumours of demonic possession and witchcraft consumed Salem. Soon three women were arrested under suspicion of being witches - but as the hysteria spread, more than 200 people were accused. Thirty were found guilty, twenty were executed, and others died in jail or their lives were ruined. This book tells the dramatic history of how the Puritan tradition and the power of early American ministers shaped the origins of the United States, influencing the founding fathers, the American Revolution, and even the Constitutional Convention.

Book information

ISBN: 9781250283320
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Imprint: St. Martin's Press
Pub date:
Edition: First edition
DEWEY: 974.4502
DEWEY edition: 23/eng/20230607
Language: English
Number of pages: 291
Weight: 504g
Height: 164mm
Width: 243mm
Spine width: 28mm