Salem Witch Trials

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Looking for a recommendation for a book on this subject. I don't even mind if it's fictional but based on the facts, I just don't want to feel like I'm reading a thesis! Reading reviews on some that I've come across it seems they're more like a history text book which isn't really what I'm after (although maybe that doesn't exist)

Have you read the play, The Crucible?

Ooh not for a very long time! I will te-read, thank you 😊

There are some interesting books on the Scottish witch hunts, in particular along the fife coast www.amazon.co.uk/Scottish-Witch-Hunt-Context-Studies-European/dp/0719060249/ref=pd_aw_vtp_1/257-5652116-7323065?psc=1&pf_rd_p=36196bac-d796-488b-8bc0-b641c2d66247&pf_rd_r=JV1SYPYHAFXB7NSFTCS6&pd_rd_wg=XZGwJ&pd_rd_i=0719060249&pd_rd_w=fZF7r&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&pd_rd_r=dc2134ce-42ff-4d40-8fb2-ec70000f9829

www.amazon.co.uk/Witches-Fife-Witch-Hunting-Scottish-1560-1710/dp/1906566836?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

The heretic’s Daughter. It’s fiction but I enjoyed it.

I second The Heretic's Daughter.

Not Salem but I also enjoyed The Mercies, another novel based stuff the witch trails in Norway.

Not Salem but I loved The Witchfinder's Sister.

Came here to say heretics daughter too.

Another one not addressing your initial query but the King's Witch series is written by Tracy Borman the Royal palaces historian and covers life in Tudor/Stewart England, James 1 witch trials and the gun powder plot, they are very well written.

Ooh yes a second for the witchfinder’s sister too.

Ooh thanks everyone, plenty of good suggestions there

Stacy Schiff wrote the well-reviewed "The Witches."

www.stacyschiff.com/the-witches-salem-1692.html

Mist over Pendle is fantastic. IIRC it features Alice Nutter, I can't recommend it highly enough.

I also have Stacey schiff the witches

The Devil on the road by Robert Westall is a cracking good read.

I find The Crucible very male oriented. It's the wicked teenage girls who are the accusers and the accusations are only shocking because they are targeted against the men of the community rather than the women (apart from one extremely virtuous old lady). Don't mean to derail - sorry- I just find it annoying (and before anyone says that men were the victims of witch trials too, they were, but in far smaller numbers)

Witch light by Susan Fletcher. The true story of a young girl called Corrag, the only witness to the GlenCoe massacre, who is tried as a witch and held captive( There is a memorial to her in Glen Coe). The story is told from the POV of the priest who is trying to obtain a confession from her and from Corrag herself. Corrag fled from England when her mother was hung for witchcraft and settles in Glencoe where she becomes the healer for the Clan Macdonald. Unusually for these kinds of stories, she really is a witch, but in the true sense that she is a gifted healer and a child of nature. I really cannot recommend this book enough.

It’s very lowbrow but “Magic Lessons” by Alice Hoffman is set during the Salem witch trials

Thank you all

The Familiars by Stacey Hall is based on the Pendal Witch Trials