A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials Audiobook (Free)

Through the bleak winter of 1692 in the rigid Puritan community of Salem Village, Massachusetts, a group of young girls started experiencing violent fits, allegedly tormented by Satan and the witches who worshipped him. From your girls’ preliminary denouncing of an Indian slave, the accusations soon multiplied. In less than 2 yrs, nineteen men and women had been hanged, one was pressed to loss of life, and over 100 others had been imprisoned and impoverished.

This evenhanded and now-classic history illuminates the horrifying episode with visceral clarity, from your opportunistic Putnam clan, who fanned the crisis to fulfill personal vendettas and greed, to four-year-old ‘witch’ Dorcas Good, who was simply chained to a dank prison wall in darkness till she went mad. By placing the distant period of the Salem witch trials in the bigger context of more contemporary eruptions of mass hysteria and intolerance, the writer has generated a are thought-provoking since it is emotionally powerful.