{"product_id":"the-ruin-of-all-witches-life-and-death-in-the-new-world","title":"The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World","description":"\u003cb\u003eA gripping story of a family tragedy brought about by witch-hunting in Puritan New England that combines history, anthropology, sociology, politics, theology and psychology.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The best and most enjoyable kind of history writing. Malcolm Gaskill goes to meet the past on its own terms and in its own place...Thought-provoking and absorbing.\" --Hilary Mantel, best-selling author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWolf Hall\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Springfield, Massachusetts in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails, property vanishes, and people suffer convulsions as if possessed by demons. A woman is seen wading through the swamp like a lost soul. Disturbing dreams and visions proliferate. Children sicken and die. As tensions rise, rumours spread of witches and heretics and the community becomes tangled in a web of distrust, resentment and denunciation. The finger of suspicion soon falls on a young couple with two small children: the prickly brickmaker, Hugh Parsons, and his troubled wife, Mary. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on rich, previously unexplored source material, Malcolm Gaskill vividly evokes a strange past, one where lives were steeped in the divine and the diabolic, in omens, curses and enchantments. \u003ci\u003eThe Ruin of All Witches \u003c\/i\u003ecaptures an entire society caught in agonized transition between superstition and enlightenment, tradition and innovation.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0593467108\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780593467107\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Gaskill, Malcolm\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Aug 2024)","offer_id":46081612775621,"sku":"9780593467107","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780593467107.jpg?v=1776047596","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/the-ruin-of-all-witches-life-and-death-in-the-new-world","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}