![]() ![]() Why were the accusers female? What was happening culturally and politically that created a witch-hunt environment? Were the girls faking? In “A Delusion of Satan,” Frances Hill examines these questions along with many others to give us a complex psychological portrait of those involved. ![]() Twenty people were put to death and hundreds imprisoned on the say-so of a small group of hysterical people, all women, mostly girls. (Doubleday: $23.95, 256 pp.) It is amazing that more literature and film has not been produced concerning the Salem witch trials since, dramatically speaking, this short period of history has it all. ![]() A DELUSION OF SATAN: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials by Frances Hill. ![]()
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