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This site provides links to books for people wanting to study witchcraft trials in depth and also for those who simply want to gain a basic knowledge of witchcaft accusations. Pursuing a scholarly theme, it focuses on searching for the facts and realizing the seriousness of witchcraft accusations in history. Popular culture today tends to sensationalize the trials, and as attested by the many tourist attractions related to them, undervalues what truely goes on when people are put to death. This site provides a credible historical account of the witchcraft accusations, including the Salem witch trials. In addition to that, it warns against using the Internet and pop-culture as a way of studying the trials. Although the Internet does have some competent sources, the author correctly guides the viewer in encouraging him or her to focus on books instead of media. In addition to offering advice on how books might help one better understand the trials, or witchcraft accusations in general, it gives detailed information on the witch trials in Europe, including witchcraft documents from the sixteenth century. Providing a thorough scope of information, the site also gives a background of New England's society in the seventeenth century. Among the links, which lead to information on the accused throughout European and American history, are some which pertain to the more prominent figures of the trials. This site seems to cover nearly every area of historical interest involving withcraft accusations in the last few centuries.