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The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials
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Frances Hill
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During the bleak winter of 1692 in the rigid Puritan community of Salem Village, Massachusetts, a group of young girls began experiencing violent fits, allegedly tormented by Satan and the witches who worshipped him. From the girls' initial denouncing of an Indian slave, the accusations soon multiplied. In less than two years, 19 men and women were hanged, one was pressed to death, and over a hundred others were imprisoned and impoverished.
This evenhanded and now-classic history illuminates the horrifying episode with visceral clarity, from the opportunistic Putnam clan, who fanned the crisis to satisfy personal vendettas and greed, to four-year-old "witch" Dorcas Good, who was chained to a dank prison wall in darkness till she went mad. By placing the distant period of the Salem witch trials in the larger context of more contemporary eruptions of mass hysteria and intolerance, the author has created a work as thought-provoking as it is emotionally powerful.
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The Salem Witch Hunt
- A Captivating Guide to the Hunt and Trials of People Accused of Witchcraft in Colonial Massachusetts
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Edwin Andrews
- Duración: 3 h y 11 m
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Decades after witch-hunting had begun to die down in Europe, North America was about to witness its bloodiest witch hunt in history. The Massachusetts of 1692 was a very different one to the state we know today. Populated by colonists, many of them a generation or less from life in an England bathed in religious turmoil, Massachusetts was not the safe haven that the fleeing Puritans had hoped it would be. Persecuted for their faith in Europe, the Puritans had pictured a kind of utopia founded on biblical principles.
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I love the the book but......
- De Regan Gibson en 11-21-20
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The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
- De: David I. Kertzer
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 15 h y 44 m
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Bologna, 1858: A police posse, acting on the orders of a Catholic inquisitor, invades the home of a Jewish merchant, Momolo Mortara, wrenches his crying six-year-old son from his arms, and rushes him off in a carriage bound for Rome. His mother is so distraught that she collapses and has to be taken to a neighbor's house, but her weeping can be heard across the city. With this terrifying scene - one that would haunt this family forever - David I. Kertzer begins his fascinating investigation of the dramatic kidnapping.
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Too much detail
- De L. WILLIAM en 03-03-24
De: David I. Kertzer
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The Return of Martin Guerre
- De: Natalie Zemon Davis
- Narrado por: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Duración: 3 h y 35 m
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The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. The astonishing case captured the imagination of the Continent. Natalie Zemon Davis reconstructs the lives of ordinary people, in a sparkling way that reveals the hidden attachments and sensibilities of nonliterate 16th-century villagers.
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Intriguing court documents
- De metAlApollo en 12-04-24
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The Faithful Executioner
- Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
- De: Joel F. Harrington
- Narrado por: James Gillies
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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Based on the rare and until now overlooked journal of a Renaissance-era executioner, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington's The Faithful Executioner takes us deep inside the alien world and thinking of Meister Frantz Schmidt of Nuremberg, who, during 45 years as a professional executioner, personally put to death 394 individuals and tortured, flogged, or disfigured many hundreds more. But the picture that emerges of Schmidt from his personal papers is not that of a monster. Could a man who routinely practiced such cruelty also be insightful?
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Excellent
- De James en 03-30-18
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America Bewitched
- The Story of Witchcraft After Salem
- De: Owen Davies
- Narrado por: J. Paul Guimont
- Duración: 12 h y 19 m
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America Bewitched is the first major history of witchcraft in America - from the Salem witch trials of 1692 to the present day. The infamous Salem trials are etched into the consciousness of modern America, the human toll a reminder of the dangers of intolerance and persecution. The refrain 'Remember Salem!' was invoked frequently over the ensuing centuries. As time passed, the trials became a milepost measuring the distance America had progressed from its colonial past, its victims now the righteous and their persecutors the shamed.
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excellent book
- De BraveSparrow en 07-30-16
De: Owen Davies
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Lady Killers
- Deadly Women Throughout History
- De: Tori Telfer
- Narrado por: Jaime Lamchick
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
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When you think of serial killers throughout history, the names that come to mind are ones like Jack the Ripper, John Wayne Gacy, and Ted Bundy. But what about Tillie Klimek, Moulay Hassan, Kate Bender? The narrative we’re comfortable with is the one where women are the victims of violent crime, not the perpetrators. In fact, serial killers are thought to be so universally, overwhelmingly male that in 1998, FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood infamously declared in a homicide conference, “There are no female serial killers.”
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An ode to arsenic
- De 🔥 Phx17 🔥 en 03-04-24
De: Tori Telfer
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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman
- Witchcraft in Colonial New England
- De: Carol F. Karlsen
- Narrado por: Jo Anna Perrin
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
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Author Carol F. Karlsen reveals the social construction of witchcraft in 17th-century New England and illuminates the larger contours of gender relations in that society and attempts to answer the question why some women were vulnerable to accusations of witchcraft and possession.
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Vital scholarship beautifully narrated.
- De Audrey en 10-13-19
De: Carol F. Karlsen
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New York Burning
- Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
- De: Jill Lepore
- Narrado por: Beth McDonald
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
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Over a few weeks in 1741, 10 fires blazed across Manhattan. With each new fire, panicked whites saw more evidence of a slave uprising. Tried and convicted before the colony's Supreme Court, 13 black men were burned at the stake and 17 were hanged. Four whites, the alleged ringleaders of the plot, were also hanged, and seven more were pardoned on condition that they never set foot in New York again.
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Interesting
- De Phillip Goodson en 05-15-09
De: Jill Lepore
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American Crucifixion
- The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church
- De: Alex Beam
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
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On June 27, 1844, a mob stormed the jail in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois. Clamorous and angry, they were hunting down a man they saw as a grave threat to their otherwise quiet lives: The founding prophet of Mormonism, Joseph Smith. They wanted blood. At thirty-nine years old, Smith had already lived an outsized life. In addition to starting the Church of Latter-Day Saints and creating his own "Golden Bible" - the Book of Mormon - he had worked as a water-dowser and treasure hunter.
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All religious histories are not created equal
- De Kendra en 07-01-14
De: Alex Beam
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The Wordy Shipmates
- De: Sarah Vowell
- Narrado por: Sarah Vowell
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
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Sarah Vowell's special brand of armchair history makes the bizarre and esoteric fascinatingly relevant and fun. She takes us from the modern-day reenactment of an Indian massacre to the Mohegan Sun casino, from old-timey Puritan poetry, where "righteousness" is rhymed with "wilderness," to a Mayflower-themed waterslide. Throughout, The Wordy Shipmates is rich in historical fact, humorous insight, and social commentary by one of America's most celebrated voices.
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I love Sarah Vowell
- De Audiophile en 10-25-09
De: Sarah Vowell
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
- De: Charles MacKay
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 27 h y 1 m
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Why do otherwise intelligent individuals form seething masses of idiocy when they engage in collective action? We may think that the Great Crash of 1929, junk bonds of the '80s, and over-valued high-tech stocks of the '90s are peculiarly 20th century aberrations, but Mackay's classic - first published in 1841 - shows that the madness and confusion of crowds knows no limits, and has no temporal bounds.
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People don't change
- De J. en 07-05-16
De: Charles MacKay
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The Year of Lear
- Shakespeare in 1606
- De: James Shapiro
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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In the years leading up to 1606, since the death of Queen Elizabeth and the arrival in England of her successor, King James of Scotland, Shakespeare's great productivity had ebbed, and it may have seemed to some that his prolific genius was a thing of the past. But that year, at age 42, he found his footing again, finishing a play he had begun the previous autumn - King Lear - then writing two other great tragedies, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra.
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Detailed and satisfying
- De Tad Davis en 02-24-16
De: James Shapiro
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- James Miele
- 01-20-23
Just awesome
Frances Hill is a great digger. Comprehensive, thorough introduction to the Salem Witch Trials…5 out of 5 and shoutout to Wanda McFadden for the spirited reading.
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- 10-05-23
Exploration not only of events but reasons behind
While not as "exciting" or easy reading as The Crucible, the exploration of political, personal, and religious factors which led to this travesty of justice is suburb, and interesting. Rather than cast the hysterical girls as willful liars (although many may have been), the text here exposes the politics and personal grudges of the supporting adults around them.
At the end we also hear of the aftermath of the accusations on those involved in the trials.
While parts are quite heartbreaking to listen to, the message of how easily even well meaning persons can be led astray is sobering.
The excellant reading of the text makes a heavy subject much easier to continue with.
You may find the prologue stage boring- however it will give context which is indispensible later. Take a break, read something lighter, and return to it.
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- Kevin Lossner
- 06-18-23
Engaging history
Aside from unwarranted speculations, such as the possible suicide of the Putnams, this seems to be a well researched history with a lot of detail I wish had been included in the discussions which were part of my youthful history classes.
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- courtney
- 09-26-17
An Okay Read
This book was written well. The only thing that was hard to follow was all the names within the story. If you do have an interest in the Salem Trials, I would recommend this book.
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- Darkjinrou
- 10-15-24
very detailed and well narrated
So much information, so little time. This book covers the trials very well. I definitely would love to visit Salem and see for myself the history.
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- Denis O'Brien Shannon
- 03-26-16
Interesting listen
Listened to this after watching The Witch. Recommended if you're interested in Salem witch trials.
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- A. LeBlanc
- 03-29-21
Best book on Salem Witch Trials
This is by far the best book on this subject I have ever read. Written extremely well, details about the accused, accusers and judges are extensive, and new ideas and theories that hadn’t been presented before. Highly recommended.
Also the narration is awesome as well.
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- Aaron
- 05-07-15
Good book
comprehensive telling of the event that changed a Massachusetts town into a spiritual mecca. exceptional
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- Dave
- 02-17-22
Ugh
This reading was just about the driest presentation of a scandalous event imaginable. I found the narrator's voice intrusively distracting also. I finished it through sheer stubbornness.
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- Jolene Correll
- 02-17-15
A new take on the Witch Trials
Would you listen to A Delusion of Satan again? Why?
Absolutely. In fact, I have had to listen to parts more closely a second time since I was driving while listening and needed to pay more attention.
What did you like best about this story?
I really enjoyed the different lens that Ms. Hill looks through to see the Witch Trials. Instead of looking at the more salacious details or the religious aspect, Ms Hill looks at the Witch Trials through the political and sociological values and events at the time. Ms. Hill is an historian, and her attention to detail comes through. I was fascinated throughout.
Which scene was your favorite?
I particularly enjoyed the wry descriptions of the girl's behavior during the trials.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Don't blame the Devil, Blame the Putnams
Any additional comments?
The narrator was wonderful, articulating clearly and at a good pace.
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