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You should find references to helibroom in most witches stories, like thee A.Miller's famous play.
Here is some more:
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The Salem Witch Trials have provided the basis for two of America's great works of drama, Giles Corey in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's New England Tragedies and Arthur Miller's classic play The Crucible. Longfellow's play, which follows the form of a Shakespearean tragedy, is a commentary on the attitudes prevalent in 19th-century New England. Miller's play is a commentary on the actions of the House Committee on Unamerican Activities and Senator Joe McCarthy.

Lois the Witch by Elizabeth Gaskell is a novella based on the Salem witch hunts and shows how jealousy and sexual desire can lead to hysteria. She was inspired by the story of Rebecca Nurse whose accusation, trial and execution are described in Lectures on Witchcraft, by Charles Upham, the Unitarian minister in Salem in the 1830s.

Gallows Hill by Lois Duncan is a young adult fiction book in which main character Sarah, and many others, turn out to be reincarnations of those accused and killed during the Trials."

(Wikipedia)

2007-02-21 01:06:51 · answer #1 · answered by jacquesh2001 6 · 0 0

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