Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts [Hardback]

Description: With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestsellers, Bill O'Reilly's Killing series is the most popular series of narrative histories in the world. Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. What began as a mysterious affliction of two young girls who suffered violent fits and exhibited strange behavior soon spread to other young women. Rumors of demonic possession and witchcraft consumed Salem. Soon three women were arrested under suspicion of being witches--but as the hysteria spread, more than 200 people were accused. Thirty were found guilty, twenty were executed, and others died in jail or their lives were ruined. Killing the Witches tells the dramatic history of how the Puritan tradition and the power of early American ministers shaped the origins of the United States, influencing the founding fathers, the American Revolution, and even the Constitutional Convention. The repercussions of Salem continue to the present day, notably in the real-life story behind The Exorcist and in contemporary "witch hunts" driven by social media. The result is a compulsively readable book about good, evil, community panic, and how fear can overwhelm fact and reason.

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EAN: 9781250283320

UPC: 9781250283320

ISBN: 9781250283320

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Book Title: Killing the Witches : the Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

Number of Pages: 304 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Topic: Witchcraft (See Also Religion / Wicca), United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), Violence in Society

Publication Year: 2023

Item Height: 1.2 in

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit, Social Science, History

Item Weight: 17.3 Oz

Item Length: 9.2 in

Author: Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard

Item Width: 6.1 in

Book Series: Bill O'reilly's Killing Ser.

Format: Hardcover