{"product_id":"9780593467107","title":"The Ruin of All Witches","description":"\u003cb\u003eA gripping story of a family tragedy brought about by witch-hunting in Puritan New England that combines history, anthropology, sociology, politics, theology and psychology.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“The best and most enjoyable kind of history writing. Malcolm Gaskill goes to meet the past on its own terms and in its own place…Thought-provoking and absorbing.\" —Hilary Mantel, best-selling author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWolf Hall\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn Springfield, Massachusetts in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails, property vanishes, and people suffer convulsions as if possessed by demons. A woman is seen wading through the swamp like a lost soul. Disturbing dreams and visions proliferate. Children sicken and die. As tensions rise, rumours spread of witches and heretics and the community becomes tangled in a web of distrust, resentment and denunciation. The finger of suspicion soon falls on a young couple with two small children: the prickly brickmaker, Hugh Parsons, and his troubled wife, Mary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on rich, previously unexplored source material, Malcolm Gaskill vividly evokes a strange past, one where lives were steeped in the divine and the diabolic, in omens, curses and enchantments. \u003ci\u003eThe Ruin of All Witches \u003c\/i\u003ecaptures an entire society caught in agonized transition between superstition and enlightenment, tradition and innovation.","brand":"Malcolm Gaskill","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":45892898455764,"sku":"9780593467107","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_874a850b-f775-4370-a2e7-195268602900.jpg?v=1732510853","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780593467107","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}