SOURCE: "The Salem Village Cataclysm: Origins and Impact of a Witch Hunt, 1689–92," in A Search for Power: The "Weaker Sex" in Seventeenth-Century New England, University of Illinois Press, pp. 383–417.
In the following excerpt, Koehler discusses the issues of empowerment and non-traditional behavior in examining why a disproportionate number of the accused witches and their accusers were female.
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