Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft
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Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft
Author: Paul S. Boyer, Stephen Nissenbaum
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright: 1974
Pages: 256
Cover Price: $ 24.50
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The stark immediacy of what happened in
Salem in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion which had been growing for more than a generation before building toward the climactic
witch trials.
Salem Possessed explores the lives of the men and women who helped spin that web and who in the end found themselves entagled in it.
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Background Information
Salem, Oregon, was established by missionaries in the Willamette Valley. Based on groundless accusations, the trials for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 and 1693 resulted in the executions of 20 people.
