A WITCH IN THE FAMILY: An Award-Winning Author Investigates His Ancestor’s Trial and Execution

A WITCH IN THE FAMILY:
A Witch in the Family: An Award-Winning Author Investigates His Ancestor’s Trial and Execution
by Stephen Hawley Martin

Quality Paperback: 288 pages, 6" x 9"

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This is a fascinating book for those interested in learning what was really behind the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692, as well as in delving into even bigger mysteries such as the true nature of reality, and what may lie beyond the veil.

Nineteen were hanged, including the author's seven-times-great grandmother, one was crushed to death, and at least four died in prison. Why? Were the so-called "afflicted" really faking their symptoms as historians have long maintained? The standard explanation is that certain people were accused as witches by malicious young women out to even old family scores. Or perhaps they did it just for sport. Prizewinning author and noted metaphysician Stephen Hawley Martin doesn't think so. He pursues several avenues of investigation including the remarkable power of belief, the possibility indicated by quantum physics experiments that thought creates reality, and the age-old concept of spirit possession and obsession.

Which one was it? Was it none of the above, or could it have been a combination of all three? Is it possible the afflicted girls were in fact possessed? Is there an unseen world where spirits roam from which they may be able to take over or to obsess the bodies of the living? In this lively and entertaining book, the author applies twenty-first century knowledge to this notion, and to other paranormal possibilities, and comes to some startling conclusions.