The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE* *A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES
AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR* 'A bona fide historical classic'
Sunday Times 'Simply one of the best history books I have ever
read' BBC History In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651,
peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock
ails and property vanishes. People suffer fits and are plagued by
strange visions and dreams. Children sicken and die. As tensions
rise, rumours spread of witches and heretics, and the community
becomes tangled in a web of spite, distrust and denunciation. The
finger of suspicion falls on a young couple struggling to make a
home and feed their children: Hugh Parsons the irascible brickmaker
and his troubled wife, Mary. It will be their downfall. The Ruin of
All Witches tells the dark, real-life folktale of witch-hunting in
a remote Massachusetts plantation. These were the turbulent
beginnings of colonial America, when English settlers' dreams of
love and liberty, of founding a 'city on a hill', gave way to
paranoia and terror, enmity and rage. Drawing on uniquely rich,
previously neglected source material, Malcolm Gaskill brings to
life a New World existence steeped in the divine and the diabolic,
in curses and enchantments, and precariously balanced between life
and death. Through the gripping micro-history of a family tragedy,
we glimpse an entire society caught in agonized transition between
supernatural obsessions and the age of enlightenment. We see, in
short, the birth of the modern world. 'A great story, exquisitely
told. This book is history at its illuminative best' The Times 'As
compelling as a campfire story ... Gaskill brings this sinister
past vividly to life' Erica Wagner, Financial Times
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