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Gaskill, Malcolm.
Subjects
Pynchon, William, 1590-1662.
Parsons, Hugh, died 1685.
Parsons, Mary (Mary Lewis), died 1651.
Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Springfield -- History -- 17th century.
Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts -- Springfield -- History -- 17th century.
Witch hunting -- Massachusetts -- Springfield -- History -- 17th century.
Springfield (Mass.) -- Religious life and customs.
Springfield (Mass.) -- Social life and customs -- 17th century.
Springfield (Mass.) -- History -- 17th century.
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Gaskill, Malcolm.
Pynchon, William, 1590-1662.
Parsons, Hugh, died 1685.
Parsons, Mary (Mary Lewis), died 1651.
Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Springfield -- History -- 17th century.
Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts -- Springfield -- History -- 17th century.
Witch hunting -- Massachusetts -- Springfield -- History -- 17th century.
Springfield (Mass.) -- Religious life and customs.
Springfield (Mass.) -- Social life and customs -- 17th century.
Springfield (Mass.) -- History -- 17th century.
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The ruin of all witches : life and death in the New World /
Malcolm
Gaskill
.
by
Gaskill
,
Malcolm
.
Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2022.
Call #:
133.4309744 G248r
Subjects
Pynchon, William, 1590-1662.
Parsons, Hugh, died 1685.
Parsons, Mary (Mary Lewis), died 1651.
Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Springfield -- History -- 17th century.
Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts -- Springfield -- History -- 17th century.
Witch hunting -- Massachusetts -- Springfield -- History -- 17th century.
Springfield (Mass.) -- Religious life and customs.
Springfield (Mass.) -- Social life and customs -- 17th century.
Springfield (Mass.) -- History -- 17th century.
ISBN:
9780593316573 (hc)
9780141991481 (pbk)
Edition:
1st American ed.
Description:
xxv, 305 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"A gripping story of a family tragedy brought about by witch-hunting in Puritan New England that combines history, anthropology, sociology, politics, theology and psychology. In Springfield, Massachusetts in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails, property vanishes, and people suffer convulsions as if possessed by demons. A woman is seen wading through the swamp like a lost soul. Disturbing dreams and visions proliferate. Children sicken and die. As tensions rise, rumours spread of witches and heretics and the community becomes tangled in a web of distrust, resentment and denunciation. The finger of suspicion soon falls on a young couple with two small children: the prickly brickmaker, Hugh Parsons, and his troubled wife, Mary. Drawing on rich, previously unexplored source material,
Malcolm
Gaskill
vividly evokes a strange past, one where lives were steeped in the divine and the diabolic, in omens, curses and enchantments. The Ruin of All Witches captures an entire society caught in agonized transition between superstition and enlightenment, tradition and innovation"--Publisher.
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