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"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history, " Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women...
4) The crucible
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen 1.85:first.
Language
English
Description
A group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret love-conjuring ceremony. When the ceremony is witnessed by the town minister, the girls are accused of witchcraft. Soon the entire village is consumed by hysteria, and innocent victims are put on trial, leading to a devastating climax.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Standard format.
Language
English
Description
In 1703 Sarah Cloyce, survivor of the Salem witchcraft hysteria, presents her story to a special commission empowered to investigate the trials for witchcraft. The events leading to the trials and the suffering they caused are told through flashbacks.
6) The crucible
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Language
English
Description
The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft - and then when those accusations multiply to consume the entire village.
About this author: Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright...
8) Hocus pocus
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English
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After 300 years, three sister witches are resurrected in Salem Massachusetts on Halloween night, and it us up to two teenagers, a young girl, and an immortal cat to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.
10) Hocus Pocus
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
25th anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
After 300 years, three sister witches are resurrected in Salem Massachusetts on Halloween night, and it us up to two teenagers, a young girl, and an immortal cat to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
SALEM returns with 13 episodes of a highly anticipated second season at the dawn of a witch war. Salem's ruthless leading witch, Mary Sibley (Janet Montgomery), has just completed the elusive Grand Rite, a deadly, supernatural ritual that unleashed a devastating plague on the town's unsuspecting citizens. As death and disease continue to spread through the war-torn village, Mary must face off against adversaries old and new, from within Salem and...
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