Cursed lives
Jan 20, 2022
2 minutes
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World by Malcolm Gaskill >Allen Lane, 336 pages, £20
In February 1651, in the little settler town of Springfield, Massachusetts, Jonathan Taylor woke in terror in the middle of the night. “Snakes!” he exclaimed to his perplexed wife. In a dream or vision that had is the story of Hugh and Mary’s trial, their lives before being accused, the tragic breakdown of their relationship, and their eventual fate.
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