Download or read book The Devil in Massachusetts written by Marion L. Starkey and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dramatic and deeply moving book combines a narrative that has the pace and excitement of a novel, a timeless portrait of bigotry and a self-righteousness, and an authentic history of the Salem witch trials. It stands alone in applying modern psychiatric knowledge to the witchcraft hysteria. Nearly three hundred years ago the fate of Massachusetts was delivered into the hands of a pack of young girls. Because of the fantasies and hysterical antics of unbalanced teenagers, decent men and women were sent to the gallows. Medical science that day had no better explanation than “the evil eye”; and so Massachusetts was precipitated into a reign of terror that did not end until the highest in the land had been accused of witchcraft—ministers, a judge, the Governor’s lady. One by one were brought to the gallows such diverse personalities as a decent grandmother; a rakish, pipe-smoking female tramp; a plain farmer who thought only to save his wife from molestation; a lame old man whose toothless gums did not deny expression to a very salty vocabulary. But from the very beginning some fought the hysteria, pitting sanity against insanity, and eventually forced the community to atone for its tragic error. Written with sly humor, much of the book reads like a novel. In the end, one is pretty sure what was wrong with Cotton Mather, the august judges, and the tormented young girls. “The Devil in Massachusetts is a vivid and compassionate reconstruction of the Salem witchcraft hysteria. Marion Starkey has written history which illustrates the past and at the same time packs and important contemporary moral.”—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. “It is certainly a ‘one sitting’ sort of book, with the dramatic appeal of the well-told story and the significances of good human history.”—Gerald Warner Brace “A fresh and full narration...of one of the most lurid, pitiful and deeply significant episodes in American history....”—Odell Shepard

Download or read book THE DEVIL IN MASSACHUSETTS written by MARION L. STARKEY and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book In the Devil s Snare written by Mary Beth Norton and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the Salem witch trials in this startlingly original, meticulously researched, and utterly riveting study. In 1692 the people of Massachusetts were living in fear, and not solely of satanic afflictions. Horrifyingly violent Indian attacks had all but emptied the northern frontier of settlers, and many traumatized refugees—including the main accusers of witches—had fled to communities like Salem. Meanwhile the colony’s leaders, defensive about their own failure to protect the frontier, pondered how God’s people could be suffering at the hands of savages. Struck by the similarities between what the refugees had witnessed and what the witchcraft “victims” described, many were quick to see a vast conspiracy of the Devil (in league with the French and the Indians) threatening New England on all sides. By providing this essential context to the famous events, and by casting her net well beyond the borders of Salem itself, Norton sheds new light on one of the most perplexing and fascinating periods in our history.

Download or read book The Devil in Massachusetts written by Marion Starkey and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Inquiry into the Salem Witch Trials

Download or read book The Devil in Massachusetts written by Marion L. Starkey and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1969-08-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical narrative of the Salem witch trials takes its dialogue from actual trial records but applies modern psychiatric knowledge to the witchcraft hysteria. Starkey's sense of drama also vividly recreates the atmosphere of pity and terror that fostered the evil and suffering of this human tragedy.

Download or read book The Devil in Massachusetts written by Marion Lena Starkey and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Salem Witch Trials written by Anna Revell and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SALEM WITCH TRIALS: The True Story Behind The Infamous Witch Trials of 1692The belief in the supernatural, and its ability to harm an individual, had emerged in Europe in the 14th century. This sparked a series of witch trials across the continent. By the mid 17th century this trend was gradually dying out across much of Europe. However accusations of witchcraft, and the hysteria which accompanies such a case, would sporadically occur in some places such as the American Colonies up until the early 18th century. The most prominent example of this was the Salem Witch Trials, these occurred in Salem, New England between 1692 and 1693. This is the story of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, and the horrors surrounding this most famous of historical witch trials.

Download or read book The Devil in Massachusetts written by Marion L. Starkey and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Devil in Massachusetts written by Marion L. Starkey and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2019 Reprint of 1950 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Motivated in part by the question of how the Holocaust could have happened, Starkey delved into the Salem archives to explore the underpinnings of an earlier American tragedy: the Salem Witch Trials. Working from court records, she created a psychological portrait tracing the development of the event from child fantasies to societal hysteria, eventually publishing in 1949 The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials. Arthur Miller is said to have used this work in his research for The Crucible.

Download or read book Devil in Massachusetts written by Marion Lena Starkey and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1969-06-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history and psychological interpretation of Salem witchcraft in 1692

Download or read book The Devil in Massachusetts a Modern Inuqiry Into the Salem Witch Trials written by Marion Lena Starkey and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Wonders of the Invisible World written by Cotton Mather and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Satan Salem written by Benjamin C. Ray and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks beyond single-factor interpretations to offer a far more nuanced view of why the Salem witch-hunt spiraled out of control. Rather than assigning blame to a single perpetrator, Ray assembles portraits of several major characters, each of whom had complex motives for accusing his or her neighbors. In this way, he reveals how religious, social, political, and legal factors all played a role in the drama.

Download or read book The Devil in Massachusetts written by Marion Lena Starkey and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Salem Witchcraft written by Charles Wentworth Upham and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Switching Sides written by Tony Fels and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starkey's devil in Massachusetts and the Post-World War II consensus -- Boyer and Nissenbaum's Salem possessed and the anti-capitalist critique -- An aside: investigations into the practice of actual witchcraft in seventeenth-century New England -- Demos's entertaining satan and the functionalist perspective -- Karlsen's devil in the shape of a woman and feminist interpretations -- Norton's in the devil's snare and racial approaches, I -- Norton's in the devil's snare and racial approaches, II

Download or read book The Devil in Salem Village written by Laurel Van der Linde and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the panic that swept through colonial Salem, Massachusetts, when the people were convinced that witches were among them and outlines the factors leading up to this episode.