Recommended Reading List

Recommended Reading

Salem Witch Trials- Secondary Sources

*A secondary source is a historian or author’s analysis of an event, using direct or firsthand evidence.

• Baker, Emerson. A Storm of Witchcraft
• Breslaw, Elaine. Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem
• Hite, Richard. In the Shadow of Salem
• Hill, Frances. A Delusion of Satan
• Hill, France. The Salem Witch Trials Reader
• Karlsen, Carol. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman.                       
• Norton, Mary Beth. In The Devil’s Snare.       
• Roach, Marilynne. The Salem Witch Trials, A Day-by-Day Chronicle
• Roach, Marilynne. Six Women of Salem
• Rosenthal, Bernard. Salem Story
• Upham, Charles. Salem Witchcraft

Witch Trials Era- Secondary Sources

• Bruner, Sigird. Fearless Wives and Frightened Shrews
• Cohn, Norman. Europe’s Inner Demons
• Davies, Owen. The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft & Magic
• Demos, John. Entertaining Satan
• Godbeer, Richard. Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692
• Goodare, Julian. The European Witch Trials
• Levack, Brian. The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe
• Rublack, Ulinka. The Astronomer and the Witch
• Russel, Jeffery and Brooks Alexander. A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics and Pagans

Primary Sources

*A primary source provides direct or firsthand evidence about an event, object, person, or work of art. Primary sources include historical and legal documents, eyewitness accounts, speeches, diaries, etc.

• Boyer, Paul and Nissenbaum, Stephen. Salem Village Witchcraft
• Calef, Robert. More Wonders of the Invisible World – https://archive.org/details/morewondersofinv01cale/page/n6/mode/2up
• Howe, Katherine. The Penguin Book of Witches
• Kors, Alan Charles and Edward Peters. Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700 A Documentary History
• Lawson, Deodat. A Brief and True Narrative of Some Remarkable Passages Relating to Sundry Persons Afflicted by Witchcraft, at Salem Village: Which happened from the Nineteenth of March, to the Fifth of April, 1692- https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans/N00488.0001.001/1:3?rgn=div1;view=fulltext
• Mather, Cotton. The Wonders of the Invisible World: Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England- https://archive.org/details/wondersinvisibl00mathgoog/page/n10/mode/2up
• Mather, Increase. Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits Personating Men, Witchcrafts, Infallible Proofs of Guilt in Such as are Accused with the Crime. http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/mather/mather.html
• Rosenthal, Bernard, ed. The Records of the Salem Witch Hunt.                                   
• Trask, Richard, ed. The Devil Hath Been Raised. 
• Hale, John. A Modest Enquiry Into the Nature of Witchcraft-  https://archive.org/details/AModestEnquiryIntoTheNatureOfWitchcraft/mode/2up

Recommended For Young Readers

• Aronson, Marc. Witch-Hunt (young adult)
• Duble, Kathleen. The Sacrifice (grades 5-8)
• Kathleen, Kent. Heretics Daughter (young adult)
• How, Katherine. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (young adult)
• Jackson, Shirley. The Witchcraft of Salem Village (grades 5-6)
• Rees, Celia. Witch Child (young adult)
• Speare, Elizabeth George. The Witch of Blackbird Pond (grades 5-8)
• Yolen, Jane. The Salem Witch Trials, An Unsolved Mystery