In the Devil's Snare

From January of 1692 through May of the following year, twenty people--mostly women--from the Salem Village of New England were executed as witches. Mary Beth Norton of Cornell University is in Knoxville today to discuss the Salem Witch trials. She chronicles this chaotic series of events in her book "In the Devil's Snare". Norton tells WUOT's Matt Shafer Powell there were several social prerequisites that contributed to the hysterical atmosphere of the time...

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