Essay Archive - Zeinert's The Salem Witchcraft Trials: Summary
Zeinert's The Salem Witchcraft Trials: Summary
The story takes place during the sixteen-nineties (1690's or early
colonial America). This was a time when superstition was well beleived and
it was quite frightening for most people.
The place where the events in question took place was in Salem, a town in
the colony of Massachusetts. Around Salem were the towns of Andover to the
NW, Topsfield to the North, Wenham to the NE, Royal Side to the East, Lynn
to the SW, and the town of Reading to the West.
The Salem village was not a very rugged place, it was just, to be frank,
norm....
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