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1) Witch trials
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 pages : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
In medieval Europe and colonial America, more than 12,000 people lost their lives for allegedly practicing witchcraft. The proof of witchery was often as scanty as a physical deformity or as outrageous as the water test: if the tied-up suspect floated in water, they were guilty; if they sunk, they were innocent!
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
xx, 300 pages ; illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Taking readers across Europe, Africa and the Americas, this dramatic journey through 13 witch trials, some famous, some lesser-known, empowers the people who were and are victimized and marginalized, giving a voice to those who were silenced by history.
Author
Publisher
Capstone
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p.
Language
English
Description
Let freedom ring. Follows the beginnings of the witchcraft hysteria that led to the Salem witch trials and describes the impact of these trials on the people and community.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
106 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestsellers, Bill O'Reilly's Killing series is the most popular series of narrative histories in the world. Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. What began as a mysterious affliction of...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
8 audio discs 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: 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...
