1.   The Salem witch trials have proved to be a legal travesty.

2.   Blasphemy cases are its version of the Salem witch trials, with clerics sniffing out infidels, and enemies using the law to settle personal scores.

3.   A slave murder, witch trial and a few other events Hawthorne never dreamed of ensue.

4.   A witch trial in New England?

5.   Ceci and Bruck researched court cases back to the Salem witch trials, studying testimony of children and the reaction of juries to it.

6.   Combining extensive research with lucid writing, Hill successfully brings the protagonists of the Salem witch trials to life, giving them distinct personalities that makes for compelling reading.

7.   Few at the time noticed that it was the same theoretical construct as the Salem witch trials.

8.   He seems to pine for the good old days of buckled shoes and witch trials.

9.   Miller knew he needed a metaphor and he found it, as many American schoolchildren know, in the Salem witch trials.

10.   More troublesome are the portrayals of Day-Lewis and Scofield as Danforth, the judge presiding over the witch trials.