DEVIL OF GREAT ISLAND - Couverture souple

Baker, Emerson W.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0230623875 ISBN 13 : 9780230623873

Editeur : Smp Trade, 2010

Synopsis

In 1682, ten years before the infamous Salem witch trials, the town of Great Island, New Hampshire, was plagued by mysterious events: strange, demonic noises; unexplainable movement of objects; and hundreds of stones that rained upon a local tavern and appeared at random inside its walls. Town residents blamed what they called "Lithobolia" or "the stone-throwing devil." In this lively account, Emerson Baker shows how witchcraft hysteria overtook one town and spawned copycat incidents elsewhere in New England, prefiguring the horrors of Salem. In the process, he illuminates a cross-section of colonial society and overturns many popular assumptions about witchcraft in the seventeenth century.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Emerson W. Baker teaches history at Salem State College in Salem, Massachusetts. He is the author of The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England. He lives in York, Maine.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Smp Trade
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0230623875
• ISBN 13: 9780230623873
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 258
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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