Connecticut Witch Trials: The First Panic in the New World

Connecticut's witch hunt was the first and most ferocious in New England, occurring almost fifty years before the infamous Salem witch trials. Between 1647 and 1697, at least thirty-four men and women from across the state were formally charged with witchcraft. Eleven were hanged. In New Haven, William Meeker was accused of cutting off and burning his pig's ears and tail as he cast a bewitching spell. After the hanging of Fairfield's Goody Knapp, magistrates cut down and searched her body for the marks of the devil. Through newspaper clippings, court records, letters and diaries, author Cynthia Wolfe Boynton uncovers the dark history of the Connecticut witch trials.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Published: 09/23/2014
ISBN: 9781540209764
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d