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Richard Godbeer. Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692.(Book review)

RICHARD GODBEER. Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv + 177.

Historians of witchcraft and of early America know the long shadow cast by the Salem witch hunt of 1692. They also know what distortions and misperceptions that shadow can bring. The number of those accused of witchcraft in Salem, and the numbers executed for this crime, surpass the totals for the rest of New England across the entire seventeenth century. The trials were, therefore, an enormous abnormality. Yet precisely because they generated the majority of witchcraft cases in colonial America, and because Salem has attained such cachet in ...

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