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9780195174830

Entertaining Satan Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England

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    9780195174830

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    0195174836

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-11-18
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

In the first edition of the Bancroft Prize-winning Entertaining Satan, John Putnam Demos presented an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England during the witchcraft trials and brought to light fascinating information on the role of witchcraft in early American culture. Now Demos has revisited his original work and updated it to illustrate why these early Americans' strange views on witchcraft still matter to us today. He provides a new preface that puts forth a broader overview of witchcraft and looks at its place around the world--from ancient times right up to the present.

Author Biography


John Putnam Demos is Samuel Knight Professor of History at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony and The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America.

Table of Contents

Introductionp. 3
Biography
"A Desolate Condition"p. 19
"Peace with No Man"p. 36
Witches: A Collective Portraitp. 57
Psychology
"A Diabolical Distemper"p. 97
"Let Me Do What I Could"p. 132
Accusers, Victims, Bystanders: The Innerlife Dimensionp. 153
Sociology
"The Mind of Our Town"p. 213
"Hard Thoughts and Jealousies"p. 246
Communities: The Social Matrix of Witchcraftp. 275
History
"From Generation to Generation"p. 315
"Hearts Against Hearts"p. 340
Communities: Witchcraft over Timep. 368
List of Known Witchcraft Cases in Seventeenth-Century New Englandp. 401
Notesp. 411
Subject Indexp. 533
Name Indexp. 537
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