![]() ![]() The town is pitted against itself, and by the time the hysteria fades, 19 men and women are hanged, another pressed to death.īut what actually happened? Pulitzer Prize-winner Stacy Schiff's The Witches: Salem, 1692 steps back from more than three centuries of hyperbole and supposition, giving us our most complete account yet. Lacking other explanations-adolescent rebellion, maybe?-Satanic influence is suspected, and accusations of witchcraft soon fly like enchanted broomsticks. Everyone knows the story: The pre-teen daughters of the local minister are mysteriously overcome by convulsions, their uncontrollable screaming sending the superstitious community into fear and confusion. An Amazon Best Book of November 2015: In 1692, at the edge of the New England wilderness, an entire village went insane. ![]()
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