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This fascinating account of the Salem Witch Trials explores their religious, social, and political dimensions, their origins, their critics, and their aftermath, as well as their influence on the American cultural imagination to the present day.

In 1682, Great Island, New Hampshire, experienced bizarre events attributed to "Lithobolia" or "the stone-throwing devil." Emerson Baker explores how these occurrences led to witchcraft hysteria, influencing later events in Salem. His account sheds light on colonial society and challenges common beliefs about seventeenth-century witchcraft.