In the Devil's Snare

The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692

by Mary Beth Norton

2002 436 pages eng

"In January 1692 in Salem Village, Massachusetts, two young girls began to suffer from inexplicable fits. Seventeen months later, after legal action had been taken against 144 people - 20 of them put to death - the ignominious Salem witchcraft trials finally came to an end.". "Now, Mary Beth Norton…