From June - September 1692, 19 people were hanged for practicing witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. Just in time for Halloween, historian Bryan Le Beau offers a much-needed synthesis of the most recent scholarship on the Salem Witch Trials, placing them into the context of the Great European Witch-Hunt, and relating the events of 1692 to witch-hunting throughout 17th century New England.

In the process, The Story of the Salem Witch Trials highlights the decisions made by certain individuals that helped turn what might have been a minor event into a crisis that has held the imagination of generations.

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