Set in the 1660s this tells the story of a girl called Mary who after her grandma is tried and convicted of being a witch is sent to America to start a new life untainted with the witch stigma. Guess where she ends up....yep Salem!!

Its very interesting reading about how the English carved a life for themselves in a harsher less forgiving climate with limited tools and food and hardly any knoweledge and how the Puritans brought their fears and superstitions with them.

Cant believe how little evidence was needed to have someone tried and convicted as a witch. All that was required was someone with a petty grudge to say you had given them the evil eye. You would find yourself in court and every time you tried to speak in your defence the girls/accusers would scream and roll about in a fit and say you were torturing them with pins etc and kick up such a scene you were convicted and burnt/hung as witch. Scary eh