Could anybody recommend any books that are based on the witch trials?
Could anybody recommend any books that are based on the witch trials?
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Could anybody recommend any books that are based on the witch trials?
The Familiars by Stacy Halls is a novel about the 1612 English witch trials. It was a good read.
Read it. Amazing book 🙂 thank you ?
Have you read the Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe? It is set alternately in the present and during the Salem witch trials. Another good one.
I haven’t but definitely going to check it out. 😀
Ooh yes please. Following.
Salem Witch Trials by Kathryn Wesley. The Crucible by Arthur Miller.
Crucible
I, Tituba by Maryse Condé is one of my favorites!
@Amanda Such a good book, I liked it a lot more than I was anticipating
The Heretic’s Daughter is good, and the author is a descendant of Martha Carrier, one of the first women accused and hanged during the trials.
@Cindy loved this book.
@Brandy who is the author?
Kathleen Kent, I believe.
I could. 😉
The Crucible
The Crucible (1953) by Arthur Miller is a classic
Witchcraft in Early North America by Alison Games
Beyond the Witch Trials by Owen Davies
Whores of the Devil by Erik Dirschmeid
The Witch Hunt in Early Modern Europe by Brian P Levack
A Storm of Witchcraft by Emerson W Baker
And if you are interested in fiction How to Hang a Witch by Adriana Mather
If you are interested in the Salem witch trials I highly recommend the podcast Unobscured.
I apologize. I now see that you were asking for books based on witch trials and I gave you mostly nonfiction. Oops
@Mags I completely appreciate this though!!! Thankyou!!!
The witchcraft of Salem village by Shirley Jackson started my interest.
Adriana Mather has two books out based on the trails but added a modern twist. She’s the descendant of Cotton Mather who started the Salem witch trials, she has books and letters that date back to then as well as other artifacts from her family members who were on the titanic and from the first thanksgiving. Very interesting ?
I was just about to suggest her books too!!!! I loved How to Hang a Witch. I am about to start Haunting the Deep after my current read.
@Cara I’m going to have to check her out.
@Freya I’m just waiting for her new book Killing November to arrive now ? she’s waiting to see if how to hang a witch will be made into a movie or show along with haunting of the deep then she can carry on the series ?
@Erika defiantly do ? she answers a lot of questions for those who want to know anything
@Erika it’s a great series so far!
Are these all fiction? When I read history, I onky read nonfiction. One of my quirks ?
A Secret History of Witches has a little bit of witch trials in there! ?
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe is great.
I just finished the witches by Stacy shiff – which is a non fiction book about the Salem witch trials. It’s very comprehensive and I learned a lot
If you ever read middle grade fiction, the Dear America book was pretty good!
‘I Walk in Dread’ by Fraustino
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I think I read a book in middle school called Sarah Bishop
A Discovery Of Witches by Deborah Harkness has a few small mentions of the witch trials.
@Hannah great book!
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The Familiars features them but is not the main story.
The witchfinders sister, can’t remember the author, although I didn’t really enjoy it as I found it a bit of a non event. Depends how much pace or action you are after.
The Familiars by Stacey Halls is my current read. It is about the Lancaster, England Pendle witchcraft trials. It’s very good!
The Witches by Stacy Schiff
@Sam great book.
“The Daylight Gate” Jeanette Winterson