A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials - Hardcover

Hill, Frances

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385472552 ISBN 13: 9780385472555

Publisher: Doubleday, 1995

Synopsis

The first in-depth study of the witch trials in decades applies contemporary psychology to the hysteria of the late 1600s, analyzing the Puritan mind and linking the trials to the "witch hunts" of the twentieth century.

About this title

About the Author:

Frances Hill, an accomplished journalist and novelist, has written The Salem Witch Trials Reader and Deliverance from Evil. She lives in London, but visits the United States regularly, spending every summer in Connecticut.
Wanda McCaddon has narrated well over six hundred titles for major audio publishers and has earned more than twenty-five Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine. She has also won a coveted Audie Award, and AudioFile has named her one of recording's Golden Voices.

From the Inside Flap:

ompelling study of the horrific  Salem Witch Trials--the first of its kind in over  forty-five years--draws strength from new  psychological insights into the roots of the hysteria that  spurred the witch hunts of the late 1600s, and  links them to the contemporary "witch hunts"  of the twentieth century.  
For more than three hundred years, the hysteria  that gripped Massachusetts during the Salem witch  trials of the late 1600s has fascinated readers  worldwide. Now acclaimed British writer Frances Hill  has applied contemporary psychology to the Salem  phenomenon and come up with startling results. Why  were nearly all of the "afflicted"  people women? What kind of mentality did the Puritans  possess to place a four-year-old child in prison?  What were the politics behind the witch hunts

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0385472552
• ISBN 13: 9780385472555
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 269