A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials - Laurie Winn Carlson - Books - Ivan R Dee, Inc - 9781566632539 - July 20, 1999
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A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials


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Offers an explanation of witchcraft's link to organic illness and focuses on the afflicted. Comparing the symptoms recorded in colonial diaries and court records to those of the encephalitis epidemic in the early twentieth century, this book presents an argument that the victims suffered from the same disease.


215 pages, 4 b&w maps, 6 b&w charts

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released July 20, 1999
ISBN13 9781566632539
Publishers Ivan R Dee, Inc
Pages 215
Dimensions 152 × 219 × 23 mm   ·   422 g

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