The "witches" may be different but the persecution for imagined sins and actions isn't. In my opinion, that's the books biggest fault, but leaving that aside, he provides the most detailed descriptions of the events I've read before.Ī part of me can't believe that such a thing could happen but it did and, even today, events not all that different continue to happen today. Many of his adjectives are laden with judgement. Starkey's book is a pretty quick overview of the events though he doesn't limit himself to pure history and tries to "get inside the people's heads." He also claims he doesn't want to judge the actions of the people but that doesn't seem to stop him from judging the people themselves. I still have a fair amount of research to prove that, but the possibility got me interested in learning more about the trials and what happened. I started doing some genealogy research recently and that I have ancestors that were from Salem Village in Massachusetts and may, possible be descended from a woman who was hanged as a witch.
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