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Title:

Secrets of the dead. Witches curse [videorecording] / Educational Broadcasting Corporation ; Thirteen/WNET ; PBS ; Channel 4 ; produced by Jenny Barraclough ; directed by Mark Lewis.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

PBS Home Video,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Trials (Witchcraft)--Salem.--Salem.
Witchcraft--Salem--Salem--History.
Salem (Mass.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Ergotism.
Genetic psychology.
Science television programs.
Documentary television programs.
Television programs for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Barraclough, Jenny.
Lewis, Mark, direction.
Schreiber, Liev.
Caporael, Linnda R.
Educational Broadcasting Corporation.
WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
Channel Four (Great Britain)
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

Other Titles:

Secrets of the dead (Television program)

Notes:

Originally broadcast as an episode of the PBS series Secrets of the dead in 2001. Narrated by Liev Schreiber ; featuring Linnda Caporael.

Summary:

"More than 300 years after the Salem witch trials led to the death of 19 innocent people, psychologist Linnda Caporael has been searching for a rational explanation for the symptoms of bewitchment. Her work has sparked an investigation into the wrenching convulsions, vivid deliriums, contaminated crops, hallucinogenic drugs, and a 2,3000 year-old murder victim buried in a bog. Was bread tainted with toxic fungus the real cause of the symptoms in Salem? Is this the same fungus from which LSD is derived? Can history's devastating witch hunts finally be explained?"--Container.

ISBN:

9780793694891
0793694892

UPC:

841887009904

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)