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A Delusion of Satan - 9780306811593
Un libro in lingua di Frances Hill edito da Da Capo Pr, 2002
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During the bleak winter of 1692 in the rigid Puritan community of Salem Village, Massachusetts, a group of young girls began experiencing violent fits, allegedly tormented by Satan and the witches who worshipped him. From the girls' initial denouncing of an Indian slave, the accusations soon multiplied. In less than two years, nineteen men and women were hanged, one was pressed to death, and over a hundred others were imprisoned and impoverished.
This history illuminates the episode with clarity, from the opportunistic Putnam clan, who fanned the crisis to satisfy personal vendettas and greed, to four-year-old "witch" Dorcas Good, chained to a dank prison wall in darkness till she went mad. By placing the distant period of the Salem witch trials in the larger context of more contemporary eruptions of mass hysteria and intolerance, the author has created a work as thought-provoking as it is emotionally powerful.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: A Delusion of Satan
- Sottotitolo: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Frances Hill
- Editore: Da Capo Pr
- Collana: Da Capo Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 29 Maggio '02
- Genere: BODY MIND and SPIRIT
- Argomenti : Trials (Witchcraft) Massachusetts Salem History 17th century Witchcraft Massachusetts Salem History 17th century
- Peso gr: 385
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 152 x 12
- ISBN-10: 0306811596
- EAN-13: 9780306811593