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You wouldn't want to be a Salem witch!

bizarre accusations you'd rather not face
Provides information about the Salem Witch hunts and trial through the fictional description of the experiences of a young girl who is accused of being a witch.

The crucible

a play in four acts
2016
Presents Arthur Miller's play in which a vengeful teenager in 1692 Salem accuses her former lover and his wife of witchcraft.
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Six women of Salem

the untold story of the accused and their accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
2013
Explores the history of the Salem witch trials from the point of view of six of the women involved, including Rebecca Nurse, Bridget Bishop, Mary English, Ann Putnam, Sr., Tituba, and Mary Warren.
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Hocus pocus & the all-new sequel

"Shortly after moving from California to Salem, Massachusetts, Max Dennison finds himself in hot water when he accidentally releases a coven of witches, the Sanderson sisters, from the afterlife. Max, his sister, and his new friends (human and otherwise) must find a way to stop the witches from carrying out their evil plan and remaining on earth to torment Salem for all eternity. Twenty-five years later, Max and Allison's seventeen-year-old daughter, Poppy, finds herself face-to-face with the Sanderson sisters in all their sinister glory. When Halloween celebrations don't quite go as planned, it's a race against time as Poppy and her friends fight to save her family and all of Salem from the witches' latest death-defying scheme"--Amazon.
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How to hang a witch

Follows fifteen-year-old Samantha Mather, who has moved to Salem with her stepmother 300 years after her family hanged witches there, to find she is ostracized by the witch descendants at school, as she unravels the lost secrets of the hangings and her family.
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Haunting the deep

Samantha Mather, fifteen, is having recurring dreams of the Titanic and while awake, receives strange missives and visions of those who went down with the ship.
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The Salem Witch trials

Text and photographs look at the seventeenth-century Salem Witch trials.

The Salem witch trials

2015
An introduction to the Salem Witch Trials.
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The specter of Salem

remembering the witch trials in nineteenth-century America
2008
Explores the history of the use of the Salem witch trials as a metaphor for persecution, intolerance, and bigotry.

Haunting the deep

2017
Samantha Mather, fifteen, is having recurring dreams of the Titanic and while awake, receives strange missives and visions of those who went down with the ship.

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