Norton presents a text where she offers a “new interpretation of the witchcraft crisis” of Salem, Massachusetts (101 of 8616). She argues that rather than solely analyzing Salem, scholars must analyze the whole of Essex County, Massachusetts (113,184). She also argues for the need for exploration of the history of the witchcraft crisis as a history of frontier warfare because of the military affairs such as King Williams’ War occurring simultaneously in New England as the rise of the witchcraft crisis (113). She examines the accusers and accused and displaced victims and refugees of the military affairs and boldly states in here conclusion that without war, there would have been no witchcraft crisis in Salem (6047). She presents her chapters
