WITCHCRAFT IN SALEM VILLAGE IN 1692 - Nevins, 1916 - WITCHES DEVIL WITCH TRIALS

WITCHCRAFT IN SALEM VILLAGE IN 1692 - TOGETHER WITH A REVIEW OF THE OPINIONS OF MODERN WRITERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS IN REGARD TO OUTBREAK OF THE EVIL IN AMERICA Book Details + Condition: The Salem Press Company (Salem, Mass). Early (5th) Edition, 1916. Hardcover with decorated boards depicting "Gallows Hill, where the witches were hanged". 253 pages with appendix and index. Includes 40 black-and-white illustrations. Winfield S. Nevins explores the history of Salem, Massachusetts and the religious hysteria which resulted in the Salem Witch Trials of the late 17th century. Contents include:- Salem Previous to 1692- Early Witchcraft Cases- Outbreak in Salem Village- Court and Places of Trial- Martha and Giles Corey- Story of Rebecca Nurse - Bridget Bishop and the Jacobs Family- The Proctors, Willard, Carrier and How- Accused and Tried but not Executed From the massive occult collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. A firm and cle