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Author:
Marion Gibson
Publisher:
Scribner
Date:
January 16, 2024
A global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate the pattern of demonization and conspiratorial thinking that has profoundly shaped human history.
What The Reviewers Say
Gibson’s book is a work of restitution and historical reparation, an attempt to give voice to those who have been silenced over the centuries. This is particularly sensitively done in the case of the Native American Tatabe (whom many readers will know as Tituba) during the 1692 Salem witch panic.
The experiences of the accused women (and a few accused men) are foregrounded, through novelistic descriptions of their lives before and after their persecution.
[A] thought-provoking and timely history of witchcraft.
A thought-provoking, sweeping work of social history..
