Historians Boyer and Nissenbaum cite this pattern as part of the evidence in support of an economically based interpretation of the witchcraft hysteria. See Boyer, Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum (1974). Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
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