Sleeping With the Devil
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/books/review/20norton.html
By MARY BETH NORTON
Published: November 20, 2005
ESSEX County. Multitudes of witchcraft accusations. Zealous magistrates
and ministers. Pervasive gossip among pious Puritans about the devil's
malevolent acts. Epidemic disease and economic disruption. A prolonged
war waged nearby. The bare bones of the story seem very familiar to
anyone knowledgeable about the circumstances of late-17th-century New
England.
WITCHFINDERS
A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy.
By Malcolm Gaskill.
Illustrated. 364 pp. Harvard University Press. $29.95.
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