A short history of the Salem village witchcraft trials

This work offers a compact historical survey of the 1692 Salem witchcraft crisis, situating the trials within colonial New England society and its religious anxieties. Readers will find a narrative overview of the accusations, the principal figures involved, and the aftermath of the proceedings.

Martin Van Buren Perley is an obscure author associated with esoteric and occult literature. Reliable biographical details are scarce, but his name appears in connection with late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century occult publishing.