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Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft
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Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft, Paul Boyer and
Stephen Nissenbaum, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press copyright
1974.
The purpose of this book was to examine the history and social life of Salem Village to try to figure out what was the cause of the events that occurred there. I believe that the authors achieved their objective at least they did to me. Boyer and Nissenbaum's explanation for the outbreak of witchcraft accusations in Salem hinges on an understanding of...
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