"As owner of the Works Like Magick Employment Agency in Salem, Massachusestts, Vivica Quinlan has a gift for perfectly matching clients with magical temps that work like a charm every time... McKenna Greylock contacts Vivica in desperate need of a jack-of-all-trades handyman to help repair her Victorian bed-and-breakfast. She has a shoestring budget and ninety days to meet the building inspector's approval--or the house will be repossessed and purchased...

Discusses the issues and controversy surrounding the trials, highlighting possible causes and the key figures.

Discusses the social and religious conditions surrounding the Salem witch hunts and describes the ensuing trials and their aftermath

Presents a chronicle of the Salem Witch Trials, an episode in U.S. history in which the strange behavior of several young girls in colonial Salem was attributed to witchcraft leading to mass hysteria, accusations against townspeople, and over twenty executions and deaths.

During the Salem witch trials, more than 150 people -- primarily women -- from 24 communities were charged with witchcraft; 19 were hanged and others died in prison. This book explores the beliefs, fears, and historical context that fueled the witch panic of 1692. The documents in this volume illuminate how the Puritans' worldview led them to seek a supernatural explanation for the problems vexing their community. Presented as case studies, the records...

Uprooted from her happy life in Beverly Hills, Pru is furious when her parents move her to Salem, a witching community, and tell her that she can't use her witch skills when she attends Agatha's Day School for Witches, especially when all the others are using them freely - even during the cheerleading try-outs!

Uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount the history of the witch hunt and trials that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts, in the seventeenth century.

"In the late 17th century, the Salem Witch Trials led to the executions of 20 innocent people. Many explanations have been given for this tragedy, but there is no single reason it occurred. Instead, multiple factors converged to create a vortex of fear, suspicion, anger, and political tension-the perfect atmosphere to support the suspension of common sense. Readers discover captivating details about this fascinating time in American history. The dangers...

Krewe member Jon Dickson's fiancee Kylie Connelly is contacted by an old friend who has just moved to Salem, Massachusetts, when the unimaginable happens as the Halloween holiday approaches. Jenny Auger has just managed to buy the historic home of her dreams. But it comes with far more history than she ever imagined, the skeletal remains of seven victims interred in the old walls of the house years and years before, along with a threatening curse....