This re-examination of the Salem witchcraft trials and their background makes use of new evidence in the areas of panic rumours, teen hysteria, child abuse, and intra-family relations. The accusations and confessions of this legal story resurrect the internal tensions underlying the Salem witchhunts. Drawing on criminal studies, the text brings to life a set of conversations that took place among suspects, accusers, witnesses and spectators.
- ISBN10 0801852005
- ISBN13 9780801852008
- Publish Date 3 April 1996
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 16 January 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 296
- Language English