The Ruin of All Witches

Life and Death in the New World

Paperback, 309 pages

English language

Published March 21, 2022 by Penguin Books, Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-14-199148-1
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The Ruin of All Witches tells the dark, real-life folktale of witch-hunting in a remote Massachusetts plantation. These were the turbulent beginnings of colonial America, when English settlers' dreams of love and liberty, of founding a 'city on a hill', gave way to paranoia and terror, enmity and rage. Drawing on uniquely rich, previously neglected source material, Malcolm Gaskill brings to life a New World existence steeped in the divine and the diabolic, in curses and enchantments, and precariously balanced between life and death.

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Subjects

  • Witchcraft
  • North America