{"id":8377,"date":"2022-01-04T17:10:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T16:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=196231"},"modified":"2022-01-04T17:32:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T16:32:18","slug":"a-forgotten-witch-hunt-in-new-england","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/a-forgotten-witch-hunt-in-new-england\/","title":{"rendered":"A forgotten witch hunt in New England"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Ellie Cawthorne\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 04 January 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Malcolm Gaskill speaks to Ellie Cawthorne about his book <\/span>The Ruin of All Witches<\/em>, which chronicles a little-known 1651 witchcraft case from Springfield, Massachusetts, revealing how an irascible brickmaker and his wife found themselves accused of diabolical activity.<\/p>\n

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Malcolm Gaskill is the author of <\/span>The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World <\/em>(Allen Lane, 2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n
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