witchcraft

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Salem witch trials

colonial life
2009
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.

The crucible

1998
With the Salem witch trials as a background, a young woman seeks revenge against her married lover by accusing him and his wife of sorcery.

The portable Arthur Miller

1995
Collection of writing by Arthur Miller over the course of sixty years, from the 1930s through the 1990s, including the complete texts of some of his well-known plays, such as "The Crucible," and "Death of a Salesman," and a radio drama previously thought to be lost.

Witches, magic, and spells

1991
Describes some of the beliefs about witches held from ancient times through the Middle Ages to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

By the pricking of my thumbs

1992
Tommy and Tuppence Beresford investigate the disappearance of an elderly woman from a nursing home, and find themselves in danger from a criminal gang and black magic.

Jay's journal

anonymous
1989
Jay's journal reveals his growing involvement with witchcraft before his suicide at age sixteen.

Learning about witches

1981
Briefly discusses the use of witchcraft and its practitioners.

Little T and Lizard the Wizard

2007
Upon learning that the Royal Magician is nervous about his upcoming Moment of Magic, Little T decides to help out, but soon the entire kingdom learns that the young prince is not yet ready to be a wizard.

The witch of Blackbird Pond

1986
In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.

Seeker

2002
Hunter reluctantly leaves Morgan behind when he receives news about the location of his parents who disappeared years earlier, but he arrives to find his mother has died and his father unwilling to allow her spirit its freedom.

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