Transcriber Notes
- There are many inconsistencies in this text. The headings in the table of contents do not all match the actual headings in the text, and not all headings in the text are in the table of contents. There are variations in spelling, hyphenation and capitalization, missing punctuation, and possible repeated words, particularly in the transcriptions from the 1692 court proceedings. In the older text, the letters u/v and I/J are sometimes used differently than is done today. Aside from a small number of punctuation typos in the more modern part of the text, and the page and item number fixes noted below, all inconsistencies and variations have been left as in the original.
- The page numbers in the Bibliography content list changed to reflect their actual page numbers in the book. A duplicate (3) in the Perley’s Chronological Chart section was changed to (2).
Typical of the Witchcraft Trials
1A SHORT HISTORY
A SHORT HISTORY
OF THE
Salem Village Witchcraft Trials
ILLUSTRATED BY A
Verbatim Report of the Trial of
Mrs. Elizabeth Howe
A MEMORIAL OF HER
To dance with
Lapland witches, while the lab’ring moon eclipses at their
charms.
—Paradise Lost, ii. 662
MAP AND HALF TONE ILLUSTRATIONS
SALEM, MASS.:
M. V. B. PERLEY, Publisher
1911
2Copyright, 1911
By M. V. B. PERLEY
Salem, Mass.
BOSTON
The Tudor Press
1911
3
NOTICE
Greater Salem, the province of GovernorsConant and Endicott, is visited by thousands ofsojourners yearly. They come to study theQuakers and the witches, to picture the mansesof the latter and the stately mansions of Salem’scommercial kings, and breathe the salubrious airof “old gray ocean.”
The witchcraft “de
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