Project Gutenberg 2020-08-01 Public domain in the USA. 124 Mackie, Pauline Bradford 1873 1956 Hopkins, Mrs. Herbert Müller Hopkins, Mrs. Herbert Muller Hopkins, Pauline Bradford Mackie Hamilton, Edward W. 1862 1943 Hamilton, E. W. (Edward W.) Hamilton, E. W. D. Hamilton, Edward W. D. (Edward Wilbur Dean) c98000162 Ye Lyttle Salem Maide: A Story of Witchcraft Produced by Mary Glenn Krause, Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "Ye Lyttle Salem Maide: A Story of Witchcraft" by Pauline Bradford Mackie is a historical novel written in the late 19th century. The book centers around Deliverance Wentworth, a young Puritan maiden navigating the treacherous environment of witchcraft accusations in Salem. It explores the themes of innocence, societal judgment, and the impact of paranoia on communities during a time of superstition and fear. The opening of the story introduces Deliverance as she encounters a Cavalier in the forest, where they discuss witchery and her recently imposed punishment for a minor social faux pas. This meeting foreshadows her entanglement with darker themes, as whispers of witchcraft swirl around her, influenced by the Cavalier's grim perspective. The narrative establishes the juxtaposition of her youthful innocence against the grim backdrop of the witch trials, hinting at the challenges she will face as accusations of witchcraft arise. The dialogue and vivid descriptions effectively set the stage for a tale steeped in both historical context and the exploration of human fear and folly. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 79.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Trials (Witchcraft) -- Fiction Salem (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction PS Text Category: Historical Novels Category: Novels Category: American Literature 379486 2025-06-25T04:57:11.694492 text/html 357747 2024-10-18T04:55:11 text/html 576135 2025-06-25T04:57:17.958397 application/epub+zip 573055 2025-06-25T04:57:12.755434 application/epub+zip 243667 2025-06-25T04:57:12.211486 application/epub+zip 670778 2025-06-25T04:57:21.732410 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 629063 2025-06-25T04:57:17.346424 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 300550 2022-09-28T10:16:09.949086 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 335720 2025-06-25T04:57:10.765443 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 315774 2024-10-18T04:55:11 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17608 2025-06-25T04:57:21.869405 application/rdf+xml 16666 2025-06-25T04:57:12.322444 image/jpeg 2336 2025-06-25T04:57:12.267438 image/jpeg 498049 2025-06-25T04:57:11.744446 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia