After two girls exhibit strange behavior, the colonial towns. Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem Paperback Septemby Rosalyn Schanzer (Author) 396 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 9.99 Other new, used and collectible from 1.35 Paperback 55. Witches recounts in electrifying detail the true events of the 17th-century witch trials in Salem Village, Massachusetts. (Publication year: 2011) I, not being a nonfiction fan, actually liked this book. Nigel Cawthorne doesn’t shy away from the violent details of this persecution, exploring the events as they transpired, the contexts that triggered them, and tracing it back to its source. Award-winning author and illustrator Rosalyn Schanzers book Witches was named a School Library Journal Best Book and a Chicago Public Library Best of the Best. Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem, by Rosalyn Schanzer is a Non-Fiction book about witch accusations, that had occurred in the town of Salem, in the beginning of the year of 1692. Accounts of famous witch trials, from Chelmsford to Salam.
Biographic detail of key witch hunters, such as Matthew Hopkins (the so-called "Witchfinder General"), who was responsible for hundreds of executions.Letters and trial testimonies from those charged with witchcraft, as well as some from self-proclaimed witches.Witches examines the wildfire-spread of witch-hunting across Europe and America, revealing the disturbing and brutal realities of these witch hunts and their roots in misogyny and religious persecution. Between 14, 100,000 people were accused, subject to the most bestial tortures and usually executed. When bigotry and power mania take control, disaster always follows for subjugated persons - even when the power is wielded by the Church.
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