Records of the Salem witch-hunt
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The silver bullet, and other American witch stories
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This book is the compilation of the stories from the Virginia Works Progress Administration who went out "among the coves and hollows of the Appalachian Mountains and record the beliefs, superstitions and traditions of the mountain folk."
With this important book, Elaine G. Breslaw has "found" Tituba, the elusive, mysterious, and often mythologized Indian woman accused of witchcraft in Salem in 1692 and immortalized in Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Reconstructing the life of the slave woman at the center of the n…
