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THE DEVIL IN MASSACHUSETTS (310 pp.) —Marion L. Starkey—Knopf ($3.50). When the Reverend Samuel Parris took the ministry of tiny Salem Village in 1689, he brought with him two dark-skinned slaves he ...

Satan came to Salem Village in 1692 … or so many residents believed. Betty Parris and Abigail Williams — daughter and niece of the Rev. Samuel Parris — began acting strangely in January of that year, ...

The first scene of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” gets down to business immediately: The Rev. Samuel Parris (Colin Smith) has seen some girls dancing naked in the moonlight, and now his daughter, ...

In early 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts, the daughter and niece of Reverend Samuel Parris began to writhe, roar, contort, and complain of feeling bites and pinches. The local doctor, William Griggs, ...