Sorcery in Salem

(Part of the Images of America: Massachusetts Series)

by John Hardy Wright

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In Sorcery in Salem, local author John Hardy Wright examines the witchcraft delusion that afflicted Salem Village and Salem Town in the winter of 1691-92. Twenty inhabitants lost their lives at that time; nineteen were hanged on Gallows Hill, and one elderly man, Giles Cory, by remaining mute as a personal protest to the proceedings of the court, was pressed to death under heavy weights. Once the prosecuting examinations began on March 1, 1692, local...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0738500844

ISBN13:9780738500843

Release Date:October 1999

Publisher:Arcadia Publishing (SC)

Length:128 Pages

Weight:0.72 lbs.

Dimensions:0.3" x 6.6" x 9.3"

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