The Ruin Of All Witches (Hardcover Book)

The Ruin Of All Witches (Hardcover Book)

USD $30.00 Malcolm Gaskill [Writer] Published by-Knopf Publishing

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About the The Ruin Of All Witches (Hardcover Book)

A gripping story of a family tragedy brought about by witch-hunting in Puritan New England that combines history, anthropology, sociology, politics, theology and psychology.

“The best and most enjoyable kind of history writing. Malcolm Gaskill goes to meet the past on its own terms and in its own place…Thought-provoking and absorbing." —Hilary Mantel, best-selling author of Wolf Hall


In Springfield, Massachusetts in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails, property vanishes, and people suffer convulsions as if possessed by demons. A woman is seen wading through the swamp like a lost soul. Disturbing dreams and visions proliferate. Children sicken and die. As tensions rise, rumours spread of witches and heretics and the community becomes tangled in a web of distrust, resentment and denunciation. The finger of suspicion soon falls on a young couple with two small children: the prickly brickmaker, Hugh Parsons, and his troubled wife, Mary.

Drawing on rich, previously unexplored source material, Malcolm Gaskill vividly evokes a strange past, one where lives were steeped in the divine and the diabolic, in omens, curses and enchantments. The Ruin of All Witches captures an entire society caught in agonized transition between superstition and enlightenment, tradition and innovation.

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The price of "The Ruin Of All Witches (Hardcover Book)" at 4 Color Fantasies is USD $30.00.

The publisher of "The Ruin Of All Witches (Hardcover Book)" is Knopf Publishing.

The genres of "The Ruin Of All Witches (Hardcover Book)" are History - United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775), Religion - Wicca (See Also Body, Mind & Spirit - Witchcraft), and Witchcraft.

"The Ruin Of All Witches (Hardcover Book)" falls under the category of Books (Hardcover).

The writer of "The Ruin Of All Witches (Hardcover Book)" is Malcolm Gaskill.