bChilling real-life accounts of witches, from medieval Europe through colonial America, compiled by the iNew York Times ibestselling author of iThe Physick Book of Deliverance Dane iand iThe Daughters of Temperance Hobbsib pFrom a manual for witch hunters written by King James himself in 1597, to court documents from the Salem witch trials of 1692, to newspaper coverage of a woman stoned to death on the streets of Philadelphia while the Continental Congress met, iThe Penguin Book of Witchesi is a treasury of historical accounts of accused witches that sheds light on the reality behind the legends. Bringing to life stories like that of Eunice Cole, tried for attacking a teenage girl with a rock and buried with a stake through her heart Jane Jacobs, a Bostonian so often accused of witchcraft that she took her tormentors to court on charges of slander and Increase Mather, an exorcism-performing minister famed for his knowledge of witches, this volume provides a unique tour through the dar