Witchcraft Illustrated

About this book

Salem's witch trials survive here through stories, pictures and the places associated with them. Kimball revisits accusations and supposed manifestations while reflecting on how witchcraft looked to a later generation.

Witchcraft Illustrated also records nineteenth-century Salem's relationship with its own past. The historical imagination of that community shapes the presentation, giving the book an interest beyond the events it recounts: it shows how a notorious episode was remembered and pictured.