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Witchcraft, Wicca & Paganism

The Ruin of All Witches

Life and Death in the New World

by Malcolm Gaskill

Gaskill reconstructs the story of Hugh and Mary Parsons of Springfield, Massachusetts, accused of witchcraft in 1651, four decades before Salem. Through this single case he evokes the precarious life of a frontier settlement, its economic pressures, religious anxieties and fractured relationships. A finely written micro-history accessible to general readers and useful for anyone studying colonial American witchcraft before 1692.

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