Death in Salem: the private lives behind the 1692 witch hunt

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Preface : a cauldron of discontent : the pressures that drove a tranquil village to combustion -- The accusers : Elizabeth Booth, Richard Carrier, Sarah Churchill -- Elizabeth Hubbard, John Indian, Mercy Lewis, Elizabeth Parris, Ann Putnam Jr., Margaret Rule, Susannah Sheldon, Mercy Short, Martha Sprague, Mary Walcott, Mary Warren, Mary Watkins, And Abigail Williams -- The victims : Bridget Bishop, George Burroughs, Martha Carrier, Giles Corey, Martha Corey, Lydia Dustin, Mary Easty, Ann Foster, Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, George Jacobs, Susannah Martin, Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Osborne, Alice Parker, Mary Parker, John Proctor, Ann Pudeator, Wilmot Reed, Margaret Scott, Roger Toothaker, Samuel Wardwell, Sarah Wildes, and John Willard -- The clergy : Thomas Barnard, Francis Dane, John Hale, John Higginson, Deodat Lawson, Cotton Mather, Increase Mather, Joshua Moody, Nicholas Noyes, Samuel Parris, and Samuel Willard -- The judges : Jonathan Corwin, Bartholomew Gedney, John Hathorne, John Richards, Nathaniel Saltonstall, Peter Sargeant, Samuel Sewall, William Stoughton, and Wait Still Winthrop -- The ruling elite : Thomas Brattle, Simon Bradstreet, Robert Calef, Thomas Danforth, Philip English, Sir William Phips, and Britain's King William and Queen Mary -- Conclusion : did seventeenth-century living conditions predispose English settlers to witch hunts. Preface : a cauldron of discontent : the pressures that drove a tranquil village to combustion -- The accusers : Elizabeth Booth, Richard Carrier, Sarah Churchill -- Elizabeth Hubbard, John Indian, Mercy Lewis, Elizabeth Parris, Ann Putnam Jr., Margaret Rule, Susannah Sheldon, Mercy Short, Martha Sprague, Mary Walcott, Mary Warren, Mary Watkins, And Abigail Williams -- The victims : Bridget Bishop, George Burroughs, Martha Carrier, Giles Corey, Martha Corey, Lydia Dustin, Mary Easty, Ann Foster, Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, George Jacobs, Susannah Martin, Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Osborne, Alice Parker, Mary Parker, John Proctor, Ann Pudeator, Wilmot Reed, Margaret Scott, Roger Toothaker, Samuel Wardwell, Sarah Wildes, and John Willard -- The clergy : Thomas Barnard, Francis Dane, John Hale, John Higginson, Deodat Lawson, Cotton Mather, Increase Mather, Joshua Moody, Nicholas Noyes, Samuel Parris, and Samuel Willard -- The judges : Jonathan Corwin, Bartholomew Gedney, John Hathorne, John Richards, Nathaniel Saltonstall, Peter Sargeant, Samuel Sewall, William Stoughton, and Wait Still Winthrop -- The ruling elite : Thomas Brattle, Simon Bradstreet, Robert Calef, Thomas Danforth, Philip English, Sir William Phips, and Britain's King William and Queen Mary -- Conclusion : did seventeenth-century living conditions predispose English settlers to witch hunts.