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Salem Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692 in "Young Goodman Brown"

The Black Man of the Forest with His Familiar
The Black Man of the Forest with His Familiar (courtesy of Peabody Essex Museum)
 
  • Excerpts from "Young Goodman Brown" related to Salem Witchcraft and Family History


  • Complete story "Young Goodman Brown" (from Mosses from an Old Manse (1846, 1854)


  • The Witch Tree Tradition (courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum)
    The story of the Witch Tree from S. Perley's History of Salem, vol. 3. p. 285, reprinted in the Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. LVII, p. 17)

  • Excerpt from The American Note-Books. Nathaniel Hawthorne visits the Charter Street Burial Ground, Salem, in 1838 and describes some of the graves.

  • [list of executed witches]



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