Of History and Sorcery: 5 Questions for Marilynne K. Roach, Author of Six Women of Salem

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Of History and Sorcery: 5 Questions for Marilynne K. Roach, Author of Six Women of Salem

<img alt="" src="http://www.britannica.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Roach-author-photo-credit-Joyce-Kelly.jpg" width="270" height="192" align="right" />The Salem witch trials are a byword for suspicion, persecution, and hysteriaâ€"and for good reason. Yet there's more to the story than we might suspect, including the fact that a person likely to have been accused of witchcraft in the Massachusetts of 1692 would have been a middle-aged woman who's had a run-in with the neighbors. So reveals historian Marilynne K. Roach, whose new book <em>Six Women of Salem</em> recounts the story.

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