October is here and so is spooky season!
This month we are highlighting resources on the Salem Witch Trials. These trials took place in Massachusetts between 1692-1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing “the Devil’s magic” and 20 were executed.
If you are interested in learning more about the Trials, check out the resources below.
These materials can be checked out by members of our community so if you see something you are interested in, contact circulation@mitchellhamline.edu.
Display and bibliography developed by Kelsey Schmidt and Steve Liska.
Salem Witch Trials Resources
The Bewitching of Anne Gunter: A Horrible and True Story of Deception, Witchcraft, Murder, and the King of England. James Sharpe. BF1565 .S52 2000
Cotton Mather on Witchcraft: Being the Wonders of the Invisible World. BF1565 .M37 1991
The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Inquiry Into the Salem Witch Trials. Marion L. Starkey. BF1576 .S83 1950
Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England. John Putnam Demos. BF1576 .D45 2004
A Guide to the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692. David C. Brown; photographs by the author. BF1576 .B76 1984
In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692. Mary Beth Norton. BF1575 .N67 2002
Judge Sewall’s Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of the American Conscience. Richard Francis. F67 .F73 2005
Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706. George Lincoln Burr, editor. BF1575 .N37 1992
Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt. Bernard Rosenthal, general editor. KFM2478.8.W5 R43 2009
Salem Witchcraft: With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects. Charles W. Upham; foreword by Brian F. Le Beau. BF1576 .U56 2000
Science and Justice: The Massachusetts Witchcraft Trials. Sanford J. Fox. KFM2478.8.W5 F69 1968
The Specter of Salem: Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century America. Gretchen A. Adams. BF1576 .A33 2008
A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience. Emerson W. Baker. KFM2478.8.W5 B35 2015
The Story of the Salem Witch Trials: “We Walked in Clouds and Could Not See Our Way”. Bryan F. Le Beau. KFM2478.8.W5 L43 1998
Witchcraft and Witch Trials: A History of English Witchcraft and Its Legal Perspectives, 1542 to 1736. Gregory Durston. KD371.W56 D87 2000
Witchcraft at Salem. Chadwick Hansen. BF1576 .H36 1969
Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy. Malcolm Gaskill. BF1581 .G37 2005
Witch Hunt: History of a Persecution. Nigel Cawthorne. BF1566.C38 2004