Book Critique-A Delusion of Satan : The Salem Witch Trials

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She writes reviews for fiction books, she may have written the book differently then most non-fiction authors who dont have any fiction background. Eventually the entire village turned on each other, almost like a war if somebody has a problem with another they accuse them of witchcraft. Parris will be ousted and leave Salem village. This is one of many of such breaks, i feel this information is useful but perhaps better for notes in the back of the book or similar. I liked the references to modern days, like on page 81 referring the trial scene as a scene from Alice in Wonderland. With the amount of information given I tended to forget names and sometimes confuse them, it did not help that Hill changed topics alot. The first accused church member was Martha Cory, accused of bewitching the three. The author takes a radical approach on the topic making her own twist on it. It contains an epiloague, list of key people, chronology, a list of everyone who died, nots, bibliography, and an index. The book, from what i know, is very well documented and ,from the references to other historians etc, well researched. For example on page 29 Hill drifts off and talks about how wichcraft have enfluenced alot of western europe and brings a quote from G. You can tell the author spent alot of time researching because the bibilography is long, including old and modern books, biographys, and diaries. Eventually Tituba and neighbors Sarah Good and Sarah Osbourne were areested for hurting the two children. Eventually 20 people were hanged, 4 people died in jail, and hundreds were sent to jail. It may have in fact been too detailed, as I many times was found lost.

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