Noonday Devils
Marina Warner, 6 June 1996
Tituba Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies
by Elaine Breslaw.
New York, 237 pp., $24.95, February 1996,0 8147 1227 4 Show More
by Elaine Breslaw.
New York, 237 pp., $24.95, February 1996,
“... left for America and became pastor at Salem in 1692 – the man at the centre of the witch trials. Elaine Breslaw, the author of this biography, must have experienced one of those epiphanies Farge describes so well when she found, in the Barbados archives, an entry in the inventory of property from an estate being sold on the island, made in a notary’s ... ”
