Brujas, libros y cintas de vídeo: literatura en torno a los juicios de Salem

All evidence we have about Witchcraft, Witches’ Sabbath and Demonic Covenant seems to point out that it was nothing but a crime that was invented mostly by an elite. A crime that was born from the Enquirers’ books as well as from the Magic Treatises that gave legal coverage to the Witches’ Hunt that took place on the Western World mainly at the end of the 15th and 17th centuries. The facts that took place in Salem on the year 1692 cannot be understood without the study of the previous Demonic Treatises and the documents written afterwards. We understand that any document has to create a plot, so we will analize the historical relevance of the most important documents about that fact, from the records from the court hearings to the script from the film The Crucible based upon the play of the same title written by Arthur Miller.Keywords: Salem, witchcraft, Arthur Miller, The Crucible, cinema, theater.