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Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In 1692 Puritan Samuel Sewall sent twenty people to their deaths on trumped-up witchcraft charges. The nefarious witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts represent a low point of American history, made famous in works by Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne (himself a descendant of one of the judges), and Arthur Miller. The trials might have doomed Sewall to infamy except for a courageous act of contrition now commemorated in a mural that hangs beneath the...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Killing the Witches revisits 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 two hundred people were accused. Thirty were found...
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Explores what primed Salem for its witchcraft fever, key people in the drama, and the events of the Salem witch trials that led to the execution of 19 innocent people.
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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In the 1600s, Maria was abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby. Under the care of Hannah Owens, who recognizes that Maria has a gift, she learns about the 'Unnamed Arts.' When Maria is abandoned by the man who has declared his love for her, she follows him to Salem, Massachusetts. She invokes a curse that will haunt her family for generations. And she learns the lesson that she will carry with her for the rest of her life: Love is the...
Author
Series
Publisher
University Of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two years later. Maryse Condé brings Tituba out of historical silence and creates for her a fictional childhood, adolescence, and old age. She turns her into what she calls "a sort of female hero, an epic heroine, like the legendary...
10) Salem: Season 2
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
SALEM returns with 13 episodes of a highly anticipated second season at the dawn of a witch war. Salem's ruthless leading witch, Mary Sibley (Janet Montgomery), has just completed the elusive Grand Rite - a deadly, supernatural ritual that unleashed a devastating plague on the town's unsuspecting citizens. As death and disease continue to spread through the war-torn village, Mary must face off against adversaries old and new - from within Salem and...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret ceremony. When the ceremony is witnessed by the town minister, the girls are accused of witchcraft. Soon the entire village is consumed by hysteria, and innocent victims are put on trial, leading to a devastating climax.
12) The crucible
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Series
Language
English
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The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft - and then when those accusations multiply to consume the entire village.
About this author: Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright...
Series
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2021?]
Language
English
Description
Practical magic: Sally and Gillian are sisters with a bewitching gift. Unfortunately their gift also comes with a dark family curse: any man who falls in love with them meets a horrible end. When Sally meets the man of her dreams, she has one final chance to lift the curse and set their love lives free. With the help of their aunts the siblings take on the dark side.
The witch: A family in 1630s New England faces destruction by the forces of witchcraft,...
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