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This compelling study of the horrific  Salem Witch Trials--the first of its kind in over  forty-five years--draws strength from new  psychological insights into the roots of the hysteria that  spurred the witch hunts of the late 1600s, and  links them to the contemporary "witch hunts"  of the twentieth century.  
For more than three hundred years, the hysteria  that gripped Massachusetts during the Salem witch  trials of the late 1600s has fascinated readers  worldwide. Now acclaimed British writer Frances Hill  has applied contemporary psychology to the Salem  phenomenon and come up with startling results. Why  were nearly all of the "afflicted"  people women? What kind of mentality did the Puritans  possess to place a four-year-old child in prison?  What were the politics behind the witch hunts and  trials, and what similarities exist in the witch  hunts of the twentieth century (for example, the  "witch hunts" of the McCarthy era)? In  A Delusion Of Satan, Frances Hill  answers these questions and many more in a  conversational and frighteningly realistic narrative as she  maps out details of the witch trials and subsequent  hangings-information never revealed before.  Discipline, morality, and intellectual rigor-these are  all attributes that Puritanism bequeathed to the New  World. Unfortunately, along with them came a  tendency to regard an enemy as beneath empathy and  deserving destruction. A Delusion Of  Satan reminds the reader that these impulses,  lurking in all people, can only be countered by  constant reminders of common humanity.

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Frances Hill, an accomplished journalist and novelist, has written The Salem Witch Trials Reader and A Delusion of Satan. She lives in London.
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*Starred Review* Almost everyone knows something about the infamous Salem witch trials, but few are privy to the chilling details that Hill, a British novelist and journalist turned scholar, reveals in her superb and boldly analytical study. Hill documents every grim particular of this travesty of justice and terrifying example of the power of suggestion, from the very first accusations to the last brutal executions. As Hill tells the all but unbelievable tale about how a group of girls accused innocent women from all walks of life of practicing witchcraft, thus instigating a year of mass hysteria and causing the death of 25 people, she emphasizes the harshness, sterility, and repressiveness of seventeenth-century New England Puritan life. It's no coincidence, Hill asserts, that Betty Parris, Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam, and Elizabeth Hubbard began having their dramatic fits in the dead of winter and in the wake of serious political and economic conflicts. The mystery is why allegedly responsible adults eagerly embraced and ruthlessly acted on their wild claims. Hill's astute psychological insights offer cogent explanations for this moral breakdown, but no interpretation can diminish the horror. And Hill reminds us that "witch-hunts are still with us." Donna Seaman

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  • PublisherDoubleday
  • Publication date1995
  • ISBN 10 0385472552
  • ISBN 13 9780385472555
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages269
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