Download or read book Modest Enquiry Into the Nature of Witchcraft written by John Hale and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First printed in 1702, this eyewitness account of the Salem Village witchcraft trials, and the events leading up to them, was written by Reverend John Hale, who concludes that it was Satan, not the witches, who used the manipulation of objects to afflict others.