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THE DEVIL IN MASSACHUSETTS (310 pp.) —Marion L. Starkey—Knopf ($3.50). When the Reverend Samuel Parris took the ministry of tiny Salem Village in 1689, he brought with him two dark-skinned slaves he ...

The first scene of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” gets down to business immediately: The Rev. Samuel Parris (Colin Smith) has seen some girls dancing naked in the moonlight, and now his daughter, ...

Satan came to Salem Village in 1692 … or so many residents believed. Betty Parris and Abigail Williams — daughter and niece of the Rev. Samuel Parris — began acting strangely in January of that year, ...