The Witch of Salem (Annotated). E-book. Formato PDF John R. Musick   -  Ezi Publishing, 2020  - 

This version include a reading note at the end of chapter A group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft. As a wave of hysteria spread throughout colonial Massachusetts, a special court convened in Salem to hear the cases; the first and the infamous Salem Witch Trials began during the spring of 1692. An incredible story about the madness of Salem and the history of the times – a combination that makes you feel like this is not at all a work of fiction.

The Witch of Salem: Or Credulity Run Mad. E-book. Formato PDF John R. Musick   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

It is a difficult task to go back to ages by-gone, to divest ourselves of what we know and are and form a clear conception of generations that have been, of their experiences, objects, modes of life, thought and expression. It is a task better suited to the novelist than the historian, and even the former treads on dangerous ground in attempting it. One of the prime objects of the Columbian Historical Novels is to give the reader as clear an idea as possible of the common people, as well as of the rulers of the age. The author has endeavored at the risk of criticism to clothe the speeches of his characters in the dialect and idioms peculiar to the age in which they lived. In the former volumes, sentences most criticised are those taken literally as spoken or written at the time.