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Shane Phillips asked this question about The Witches: Salem, 1692:
Is this a historically accurate book? Noticed that some say it is "Fantasy", or "Fiction"
Bobbi Considering no one that is alive today was there, we really have no clue. Ms. Schiff went by journals and other works but who is to say really? I don'…moreConsidering no one that is alive today was there, we really have no clue. Ms. Schiff went by journals and other works but who is to say really? I don't think I would go as far as marking it fiction, but then they may have meant that it's fiction since none of the women who were executed for witchcraft were actually proven to be witches, even posthumously. (less)
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The Witches
by Stacy Schiff (Goodreads Author)
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