
Killing the Witches
The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
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Robert Petkoff
With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestsellers, Bill O'Reilly's Killing series is the most popular series of narrative histories in the world.
Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. What began as a mysterious affliction of two young girls who suffered violent fits and exhibited strange behavior soon spread to other young women. Rumors of demonic possession and witchcraft consumed Salem. Soon three women were arrested under suspicion of being witches—but as the hysteria spread, more than 200 people were accused. Thirty were found guilty, twenty were executed, and others died in jail or their lives were ruined.
Killing the Witches tells the dramatic history of how the Puritan tradition and the power of early American ministers shaped the origins of the United States, influencing the founding fathers, the American Revolution, and even the Constitutional Convention. The repercussions of Salem continue to the present day, notably in the real-life story behind The Exorcist and in contemporary “witch hunts” driven by social media. The result is a compulsively listenable audiobook about good, evil, community panic, and how fear can overwhelm fact and reason.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.
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Very interesting
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I have to say without question that this book turns some corners that I did not expect, and was very surprising in both a good way and an interesting way.
I think the most impressive part was the connection of how the witches in Salem were arrested convicted, and hung on no real evidence. And comparing to today’s cancel culture that you’re not hanging someone physically, but you destroy their lives you take their income they lose everything they work for Strictly based on a baseless accusation
So what makes us as a society accepting the cancel culture in destroying peoples lives on purely an accusation. One of the great parts of being a citizen of the United States and even if you’re visiting here, you have the presumption of innocence,
With a cancel culture, you can accuse somebody they have to spend an exorbitant amount of money on lawyers they may not have they have to lose their life savings just not to be put in jail, or to pay out a frivolous lawsuit of an accusation that cannot be proved.
I think in my lifetime the glaring accusation made with justice Kavanaugh that he abused a woman over 25 years ago and these accusations no proof no police report. Nothing almost destroyed this man’s career and life. What did this do to his family to his children that had to sit in the gallery behind him , while he was being accused of what would be a heinous crime.
He may have survived it, but it will always be a dark shadow following him. And because our laws with him, being a public figure, he cannot even turn around and sue this woman for her accusations that destroyed and came close to destroying his character and his life
The same thing in my world holes true of Bill O’Reilly, he has been fortunate enough to have a following, that was an educational eye understands that a high profile person like Mr. O’Reilly sometimes will settle a lawsuit because it’s cheaper and your life can move on by paying out a fee.
And because of him being a public person famous on television he doesn’t have the same rights as Justice Kavanaugh doesn’t have the rights to go after somebody for them
So we truly are living in a time or accusations are enough to murder a persons life, and sometimes I think the living after those type of events is worse than death itself. At least one death is brought about you. The pain is suffering ends like a cancer,
Thank you for writing such an insightful book one more time and bring attention to how we as of people today are really know better than the people of Salem in the 1600s
The witches of Salem versus the cancel culture of today
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Excellent witch discussion
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O'Reilly and Dugard Do it Again!
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Love the witches!
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Recommended and I learned a lot
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I consider the tying in the current day’s witch-hunt activities in cancel culture interestingly helpful. As Solomon said in Ecclesiastes, there is nothing new under the sun.
I recommend the book.
Well done history of witches and hunts
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I’ve read all of O’Reilly’s ‘Killing’ books and this seemed thrown together FOR HIM which still makes it a good book but not his best.
Interesting but divergent.
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The author is great lots of details.
Witch Trials
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Captivating and informative!
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