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Approaching the subject as a legal and social historian, Peter Charles Hoffer offers a fresh look at the Salem outbreak based on recent studies of panic rumors, teen hysteria, child abuse, and intrafamily relations. He brings to life a set of conversations -- in taverns and courtrooms, at home and work -- which took place among suspected witches, accusers, witnesses, and spectators. The accusations, denials, and confessions of this legal story eventually resurrect the tangled internal tensions that lay at the bottom of the Salem witch hunts.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Alternative belief systems

• Full title: Devil's Disciples
• Subtitle: The Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials
• Author: Peter Charles Hoffer
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• EAN: 9780801852015
• ISBN: 0801852013
• ID: 04708619
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Weight: 460 g
• Dimensions: 154 × 228 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. June 1998

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