The Pyncheons, having lived for generations under the curse of a supposed witch who once occupied the land on which the family mansion was built, gain a new lease on life with the arrival of young Phoebe Pyncheon.
Retells, in graphic novel format, the story of the Salem Witch Trials, during which eighteen people were hanged, five died in jail, and another was killed after being accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, in the late 1600s.
In 1693, the village of Salem, Massachusetts was overcome with superstitious hysteria. At the peak of the madness someone hundred fifty people, male and female, were accused of being witches. Twenty of them were executed.
Told from two different perspectives, this novel, set against the backdrop of the Salem Witch Trials, follows Elizabeth Putnam, who is accused of witchcraft, and her best friend George, who must choose between the beliefs of his community and what he knows to be true.
Presents an illustrated history of the witch trials in the English colonial town called Salem, where people's mental illness was mistaken for witchcraft, and discusses the role of Reverend Samuel Parris and various arrests, punishments and wrongful deaths of people whose behavior was misunderstood, and includes a glossary.
Presents Arthur Miller's drama about the hysteria that gripped Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 after a vengeful teenager leveled an accusation of witchcraft against her employer.
Against the backdrop of the seventeenth-century Salem witch trials, a woman extracts revenge against her married paramour by charging that he and his wife are sorcerers.
Presents an introductory overview of the Salem witch trials and biographical profiles of five people involved: the slave Tituba, Reverend Samuel Parris, Reverend Cotton Mather, Judge Samuel Sewall, and one of those hanged, Rebecca Nurse.
Presents a history lesson to the hysteria surrounding the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts in 1692 and provides clues to understanding why and how they occurred.
