Emerson W Baker: 2 books
A Storm of Witchcraft
The Salem Trials and the American Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort their bodies, complaining of pins stuck into...
The Devil of Great Island
Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
In 1682, ten years before the infamous Salem witch trials, the town of Great Island, New Hampshire, was plagued by mysterious events: strange, demonic noises; unexplainable movement of objects; and hundreds of stones that rained upon a local tavern and appeared at random inside its walls. Town residents...