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title: "Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft"
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# Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft

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## Customer Reviews

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    Important Theory, More Important Data
  

*by B***D on Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2012*

One of the great things about not being the first reviewer of a book, is that you can feel free to limit yourself to a discussion of what you felt was important about the book to your own point of view, since most of the other reviewers will have covered some of the more general issues about the book.Like the lead reviewer, I do not buy into the authors' sociological conclusions regarding the origins of the Salem Witch trials. But that does not mean this is not a very valuable book for those who study this subject. Since it does end with a socio-economic explanation of events, it marshalls and displays an impressive amount of evidence regarding the state of Salem Village at the time of the outbreak. You are unlikely to find this information elsewhere, and it is just as likely to support an alternative explanation as the one to which the authors lead you.For example, early in the book, the authors make the connection between the events in Salem and the events, 42 years later, a few dozen miles to the west, in Northampton, Massachusetts, during what was called the First or "Little" Great Awakening in the parish of Jonathan Edwards. This was the source for my alternate theory of the events in Salem. This means that one should read this book with an open heart, get what ideas are good, and criticize the ideas which may be too much of a stretch.If the authors attend too much to any one point, it seems to be the motives of certain individuals. My reading of the events is that it was an incident fuelled not by the evil or ignorance of one person, like Thomas de' Torquemada's role in the Spanish Inquisition, but in the sense of the times, fed by the way in which the incident was sparked by the Amerindian slave Tituba and her vision of many witches signing the Devil's book.

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    a nuanced and detailed account of the witchcraft trials
  

*by D***P on Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2021*

The book is totally absorbing, a well-written account of a polarized period in history. It's too easy to dismiss such times as crazy aberrations, but seeing all the factors that influence people's behavior allows us to learn from the past. I read this to understand some family genealogy, and it filled the bill. However, the story is worth reading for anyone interested in history, New England, how distrust grows and how healing takes place. Excellent!

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    Good Book!
  

*by S***E on Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2022*

Came in perfect condition and the book had useful information for an essay on the Salem witch trials !

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