Here's an interesting article about how historians and writers are still trying to figure out the events that caused the Salem witch trials.
“It also has to do with the belief of the people in the 17th century that the invisible world was just as real as the visible world. I like to ask students at the end of the semester, ‘What’s the most important thing you learned in this course?’ The most satisfying responses I’ve gotten have been from students saying they learned that people in the 17th century really believed these were witches.”
Link via the bookslut.
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