| Description |
x, 253 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Magical experiments : divining, healing and destroying in seventeenth-century New England -- The serpent that lies in the grass unseen : clerical and lay opposition to magic -- Entertaining Satan : sin, suffering, and countermagic -- Sinful curiosity : astrological discourse in early New England -- Insufficient grounds for conviction : witchcraft, the courts, and countermagic -- Rape of a whole colony : the 1692 witch-hunt |
| Analysis |
United States |
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Witchcraft History |
| Notes |
Based on the author's thesis, Brandeis University |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Witchcraft -- New England -- History.
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Witchcraft -- New England.
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| LC no. |
91022371 |
| ISBN |
0521403294 (hardback) |
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