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Salem Story: Reading the Witch Trials of 1692 Paperback - 1995

by Bernard Rosenthal


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Salem Story engages the story of the Salem witch trials through an analysis of the surviving primary documentation and juxtaposes that against the way in which our culture has mythologized the events of 1692. Salem Story examines a variety of individual motives that converged to precipitate the witch hunt. The book also examines subsequent mythologies that emerged from the events of 1692. Of the many assumptions about the Salem Witch Trials, the most persistent one remains that they were precipitated by a circle of hysterical girls. Through an analysis of what actually happened, through reading the primary material, the emerging story shows a different picture, one where "hysteria" inappropriately describes the events and where accusing males as well as females participated in strategies of accusation and confession that followed a logical, rational pattern.

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In the beginning there was Tituba: a woman who, according to the politics of the early 1960s, gained power because a working mother paid insufficient attention to her family.

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  • Title Salem Story: Reading the Witch Trials of 1692
  • Author Bernard Rosenthal
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New ed
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date 1995-09-29
  • ISBN 9780521558204 / 0521558204
  • Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.07 x 6 x 0.73 in (23.04 x 15.24 x 1.85 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Trials (Witchcraft) - Massachusetts - Salem, Witchcraft - Massachusetts - Salem
  • Dewey Decimal Code 133.430
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