A really good book is Salem Witch. I don't know the author, but it has two sides of the story, one of the accused person, and the other of the the accuser.
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That is not a good book is you want to read about the trials because its fiction. I would suggest Witch Hunt by Marc Aronson or A Fever in Salem by Laurie Carlson.
In the Devil's Snare by Mary Beth Norton and Witch Hunt by Marc Aronson.
It inspired 'The Crucible'.
Strengths: It is a generally good comparison and the author could say it was just a novel on the Salem crisis and not an attack on a senator Weakness: the amount of incorrect information in the book pollutes the knowledge pool on the subject.
Martha Corey, elisabeth protor, john proctor, giles Corey, Sarah good, Sarah osburne,
Dorcas Good EDIT: Dorcas was the youngest ACCUSED. She survived the trials only to go mad. The youngest to DIE was John Willard, who was around thirty when he was executed on August 19, 1692.
Her name was Dorcas Good and she was 4 years of age. She was the daughter of Sarah and William Good.
She was hanged.
It inspired 'The Crucible'.
mystry case files: curse of the briar rose Salem witch trials
The first three women to be tried in Salem were Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborn. Soon after these three women were accused, multiple accusations swept across Salem and many were put in jail or sentenced to hang.
Sarah Good was, as we can figure from documents, thirty-eight/thirty-nine years in 1692.
Elizabeth Proctor was poor. She was around during the Salem witch trials, and accused of being a witch. She was the wife of John Proctor.
Strengths: It is a generally good comparison and the author could say it was just a novel on the Salem crisis and not an attack on a senator Weakness: the amount of incorrect information in the book pollutes the knowledge pool on the subject.
Martha Corey, elisabeth protor, john proctor, giles Corey, Sarah good, Sarah osburne,
Witchcraft in Salem. On March 1, 1692, Salem, Massachusetts authorities interrogated Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and an Indian slave, Tituba, to determine if they indeed practiced witchcraft. So began the infamous Salem Witch Trials of 1692 .
They occured at a good time and place for their kind of event. Puritan Massachusetts held strong beliefs in the existance of witchcraft and took accusations of it seriously.
Dorcas Good EDIT: Dorcas was the youngest ACCUSED. She survived the trials only to go mad. The youngest to DIE was John Willard, who was around thirty when he was executed on August 19, 1692.
Her name was Dorcas Good and she was 4 years of age. She was the daughter of Sarah and William Good.