The Invisible World

On a raw January night in 1692, in the parsonage of a small New England farming village, a nine-year-old girl began to convulse in a way no one in the room could explain. Within a year the Massachusetts Bay Colony had hanged nineteen of its own people for a crime that does not exist, crushed a twentieth to death beneath stones for refusing to plead, and left at least five more to die in its jails. A community that prided itself on being a city on a hill - a model of godly order for the whol...