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Trade paperback. 252pp., Selected Bibliography, Index. Illustrated. A recent reprint of this classic mongraph of the phenomena of the Salem witch trials, written against the back-drop of the larger belief system of the 17th century and rebutting the traditional earlier thesis that “mass hysteria” was to blame, and that the clergy fueled and inspired the outbreak of wich-hunting the swept the Massachusets Bay Colony in 1692. An important scholarly contribution to the study of the literatuire of witchcraft. No previous owner’s name, no remainder marks. First page of text shows yellow highllighting, else a very clean, square , tight copy. Very good.