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History of Salem Village

Witchcraft and Witchcraft Trials

Materials at the Somerset Public Library

 

Young Adult Titles
 
    YA 133.4 KAL
    Witches / by Stuart A. Kallen
 
    YA 133.4 ORR 2004
    The Salem witch trials
    Orr, Tamra.
 
    YA 133.4 RIC
    The Salem witch trials / by Earle Rice, Jr.
 
    YA 133.4 SAL 2003
    The Salem witch trials
 
    YA 133.4 WIL
    The Salem witch trials / by Lori Lee Wilson.  
                 
    YA 345.744 FRE
    The Salem witchcraft trials in American history / by David K. Fremon.
 
    YA 345.744 WOO
    The Salem witchcraft trials: a headline court case / by Geraldine Woods.
 
Children’s Department
 
    Y 345.744 CUR 2002
    The Salem witch trials / by Stephen Currie
 
    Y 345.744 DOL 2001
    The Salem witch trials / Ed. Dolan
    
    Y 133.4 JAC / Y 973.23 J14
    The witchcraft of Salem Village / by Shirley Jackson.
 
    Y 974.4 A
    The devil’s shadow; the story of witchcraft in Massachusetts / Clifford Lindsey Alderman.
 
Adult Circulation
 
    133.4 MAR (Ask)
    Witchcraft: the history and mythology / by Richard Marshall.
 
    B Tituba (Biography)
    Tituba of Salem Village / by Ann Lane Petry.
 
 
Videos
 
    VC #1913 (Educational)
    Puritan New England
    1 videocassette (46 min)
 
    VC #1935 (Educational)
    City confidential: secrets and superstition in Salem / by A&E Television
    1 videocassette (50 min)
 
    VC #461 Travel
    Old Salem
    1 videocassette (30 min).
 
Reference Department
 
    REF 133 CAS (Ref Office)
    Dictionary of witchcraft / by David Pickering.  294 p.,ill.
 
    REF 133.4 GUI
    The encyclopedia of witches and witchcraft / by Rosemary Guiley.   
417 p.
 
     REF 133.4 L665
    What really happened in Salem? : documents pertaining to the 17th century witchcraft trials / by David Levin. 
                         238 p.
 
    REF 133.4 U67 (2 volume set)
    Salem witchcraft; with an account of Salem village and a history of opinions.../ by Charles Wentworth Upham
2 v. ill., ports, maps
 
 
Other materials are also available in the Reference Department as well as access to full-text journal and newspaper databases, which include articles on the Salem Witchcraft trials.  Ask the Reference Staff for assistance.
 
For more information
 
Try these websites:
 
Text Box: Please note:  The Library has no control over the material found on the Internet and the Library assumes not responsibility for the quality or accuracy, of any Internet resource
 
These  sites have been selected from a variety of sources.  The Somerset Public Library does not endorse any of these sites, they are for informational purposes only. 
 
    Famous American trials: The Salem witchcraft trials, 1692.
    http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm
 
   Salem Witchcraft Hysteria
   http://nationalgeographic.com/features/97/salem/splashx.html
 
    What about witches? http://www.salemweb.com/guide/witches.htm

 

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