What Were the Salem Witch Trials?

What Were the Salem Witch Trials?
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 114
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ISBN-10 : 9780698412347
ISBN-13 : 0698412346
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Book Synopsis What Were the Salem Witch Trials? by : Joan Holub

Download or read book What Were the Salem Witch Trials? written by Joan Holub and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something wicked was brewing in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. It started when two girls, Betty Parris and Abigail Williams, began having hysterical fits. Soon after, other local girls claimed they were being pricked with pins. With no scientific explanation available, the residents of Salem came to one conclusion: it was witchcraft! Over the next year and a half, nineteen people were convicted of witchcraft and hanged while more languished in prison as hysteria swept the colony. Author Joan Holub gives readers and inside look at this sinister chapter in history.


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