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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 329. Not illustrated. Chapters: Salem Witch Trials, Cotton Mather, Salem, Massachusetts, Andover, Massachusetts, the Crucible, Cultural Depictions of the Salem Witch Trials, Elizabeth Howe, Abigail Faulkner, Increase Mather, Bury St. Edmunds Witch Trials, John Proctor, Nathaniel Higginson, Tituba, Timeline of the Salem Witch Trials, Elizabeth Proctor, Giles Corey, Samuel Sewall, Bloodlines of Salem, Mary Eastey, Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Good, William Phips, Bridget Bishop, Samuel Willard, William Stoughton, Rachel Clinton, List of People of the Salem Witch Trials, Edward Bishop, Mary Bradbury, Sarah Bibber, Elizabeth Hubbard, Thomas Brattle, Sarah Osborne, Samuel Parris, John Hale, Francis Dane, Dorothy Good, Spectral Evidence, Mary Walcott, Abigail Williams, Thomas Danforth, Mary Warren, Mercy Lewis, Edward Bishop Iii, Peter Tufts, Sarah Churchwell, Jonathan Corwin, Ann Putnam, Jr., Ann Pudeator, the Witch House, Rebecca Nurse Homestead, Nathaniel Saltonstall, Margo Burns, John Hale House, Wilmot Redd, Roger Toothaker, Ann Foster, George Burroughs, Martha Corey, Susannah Sheldon, Abigail Hobbs, Dorcas Hoar, Stephen Sewall, John Hathorne, Betty Parris, Rebecca Eames, Thomas Putnam, John Willard, George Corwin, Thorndike Proctor, Alice Parker, Mary Parker, John Alden, John Richards, Sarah Wildes, Deodat Lawson, Thomas Maule, Sarah Cloyce, a Mirror for Witches, Bartholomew Gedney, Elizabeth Thorndike, Samuel Wardwell. Excerpt: The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings before local magistrates followed by county court of trials to prosecute people accused of witchcraft in Essex, Suffolk, and Middlesex counties of colonial Massachusetts, between February 1692 and May 1693. The episode has been used in political rhetoric and popular literature as a vivid cautionary tale about the dangers of religious extremism, false accusations, l...
