"The Penguin Book of Witches" Edited by Katherine Howe. Penguin Group, New York, 2014. 321 pages, paperback. $17.Katherine Howe's new book, "The Penguin Book of Witches," will be a go-to fall read for many who find themselves forever questioning how 20 people could possibly have been executed for practicing witchcraft on Massachusetts' North Shore.As Howe points out, a few other accused witches were executed in the United States, but nothing compares to what happened in Salem where at [...]
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