Sorcery in Salem (Images of America) - Softcover

Wright, John Hardy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738500844 ISBN 13: 9780738500843

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC), 1999

Synopsis

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 authorities were uncertain what course the following trials would take. Spectral evidence, in which the shape of a suspected witch tortured people, was a primary indication of guilt, as was the touch test, in which a victim was released from the witch s power upon the laying on of hands. Not being able to correctly recite the Lord s Prayer was also damning."

About this title

About the Author:

This dark episode in Salem s colonial history has never been more popular than today. Scholarly books on witchcraft and the occult, and museums and fright sites in Salem now draw hundreds of thousands of people each year, especially during the month of October. Many consider Salem the Halloween Capital of the World. Author John Hardy Wright offers the first all-pictorial history of witchcraft in Salem, illuminating the development of witchcraft and the Halloween mania permeating the city today.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0738500844
• ISBN 13: 9780738500843
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128