Riding the Nightmare

Riding the Nightmare Women & Witchcraft from the Old World to Colonial Salem

1st HarperPerennial Edition

Paperback (01 Jan 1992)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Shows how myths, folk art, popular tracts, church dogma, and politics linked up during the decline of agrarian society to shape the craze that sent as many as a million people 90% of them women to the gallows. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Book information

ISBN: 9780060974961
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Imprint: HarperPerennial
Pub date:
Edition: 1st HarperPerennial Edition
DEWEY: 133.43082
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 228
Weight: 226g
Height: 203mm
Width: 133mm
Spine width: 19mm