Salem Witchcraft Volumes 1 & II

Salem Witchcraft Volumes 1 & II

The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings held before local magistrates which were followed by county court trials to prosecute people accused of witchcraft. Between February 1692 and May 1693 over 150 people were arrested and imprisoned.

The following extract is taken from the Preface of Upham's two-volume book originally published in 1867:

The "Lectures on Witchcraft," published in 1831, have long been out of print. Although frequently importuned to prepare a new edition, I was unwilling to issue again what I had discovered to be an insufficient presentation of the subject. In the mean time, it constantly became more and more apparent, that much injury was resulting from the want of a complete and correct view of a transaction so often referred to, and universally misunderstood.

The first volume of this work contains what seems to me necessary to prepare the reader for the second, in which the incidents and circumstances connected with the witchcraft prosecutions in 1692, at the village and in the town of Salem, are reduced to chronological order, and exhibited in detail.

As showing how far the beliefs of the understanding, the perceptions of the senses, and the delusions of the imagination, may be confounded, the subject belongs not only to theology and moral and political science, but to physiology, in its original and proper use, as embracing our whole nature; and the facts presented may help to conclusions relating to what is justly regarded as the great mystery of our being,â€”the connection between the body and the mind.

Book contains Table of Contents and extracts from Mr Parris's church records.
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2010-07-23
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2010-07-23
Format	Kindle eBook

Salem Witchcraft Volumes 1 & II

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