The Salem Witch Trials Reader

by Hill, Frances

• ISBN13: 9780306809460
• ISBN10: 030680946X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-19
• Publisher: TIME WARNER ON DEMAND

Summary

History

Author Biography

Frances Hill, an accomplished journalist and novelist, has written The Salem Witch Trials Reader and A Delusion of Satan. She lives in London.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xiii
The Salem Witch-hunt Death Toll	xv
Introduction	xvii
Chronology	xix
Part I The Background	1	(54)
Witchcraft	3	(22)
Malleus Maleficarum (1486)	4	(1)
James Sprenger
Heinrich Kramer
A Discourse on the Damned Art of Witchcraft, So Far Forth as It Is Revealed in the Scriptures and Manifest by True Experience (1608)	5	(2)
William Perkins
The Wonderful Discovery of the Witchcrafts of Margaret and Phillip Flower, Daughters of Joan Flower near Beaver Castle: Executed at Lincoln, March 11, 1618 (1619)	7	(4)
Increase Mather, An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences (1684)	11	(6)
Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions (1689)	17	(8)
Cotton Mather
The Massachusetts Bay Colony	25	(30)
The Winthrop Papers, volume 2, Concluding section of The Model of Christian Charity (1931)	26	(1)
The Day of Doom, or A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgement, with a Short Discourse on Eternity (1929)	27	(6)
Kenneth B. Murdock
Michael Wigglesworth
Corderius Americanus, An essay Upon the Good Education of Children, in a Funeral Sermon Upon Mr. Ezekiel Cheever, Master of the Free School in Boston (1708)	33	(1)
Cotton Mather
Records and files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, volume I, 1636--1656 (1911)	34	(3)
New England Judged (1667)	37	(4)
George Bishop
Robert Roules's signed deposition to the General Court, July 17th 1677	41	(3)
A Narrative of the Captivity, Sufferings and Removes of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682)	44	(2)
The Salem Village Book of Record: 1672--1697	46	(9)
Part II The Witch-hunt	55	(60)
The Guilt of Innocent Blood	59	(56)
A Modest Enquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft (1702)	59	(2)
John Hale
More Wonders of the Invisible World (1700)	61	(1)
Robert Calef
A Brief and True Narrative of Witchcraft at Salem Village (1692)	61	(5)
Deodat Lawson
More Wonders of the Invisible World (1700)	66	(19)
Robert Calef
Letter (1692)	85	(15)
Thomas Brattle
Governor Phipps's, Letters to the Home Government (1692--1693)	100	(3)
Move Wonders of the Invisible World	103	(5)
Robert Calef
The Confession of Ann Putnam (1706)	108	(7)
Part III The Hunter and the Hunted	115	(98)
Samuel Parris (1653--1720)	117	(60)
Salem Witchcraft (1689)	118	(1)
Charles W. Upham
Salem Village Book of Record	119	(1)
More Wonders of the Invisible World	119	(1)
Salem Village Book of Record	120	(4)
Samuel Parris's Sermon Notebook	124	(3)
Salem Village Church Book of Record	127	(2)
Samuel Parris's Sermon Notebook	129	(3)
Salem Village Church Book of Record	132	(45)
George Burroughs (1650--1692)	177	(36)
Letter from Bryan Pendleton to Governor Leverett of Massachusetts, August 13, 1676	177	(1)
Depositions to the County Court, in the case of Lieutenant John Putnam versus Mr. George Burroughs (1683)	178	(2)
Return of the marshall to the court	180	(1)
Letters from George Burroughs and eight others to the Governor's Council in Boston	181	(3)
Letter of Thomas Putnam to John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin	184	(1)
Complaint, letter, arrest warrant, examination, deposition, and indictments to the Court of Oyer and Terminer, regarding George Burroughs	185	(19)
Wonders of the Invisible World	204	(9)
Cotton Mather
Part IV The Historians	213	(94)
Myth and Reality	215	(92)
The Life of His Excellency Sir William Phipps, Knt. (1697)	215	(1)
Cotton Mather
The History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay (1765)	216	(3)
Thomas Hutchinson
The History of the United States of America (1834)	219	(8)
George Bancroft
Salem Witchcraft (1867)	227	(2)
Charles W. Upham
Annals of Witchcraft in New England (1869)	229	(1)
Samuel G. Drake
A Short History of the Salem Witchcraft Trials (1911)	229	(1)
M. V. B. Perley
Witchcraft in Salem Village (1916)	230	(1)
Winfield S. Nevins
The Devil in Massachusetts (1949)	231	(2)
Marion Starkey
Witchcraft at Salem (1969)	233	(18)
Chadwick Hansen
Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft (1974)	251	(6)
Paul Boyer
Stephen Nissenbaum
Ergotism: The Satan Loosed in Salem? (1976)	257	(13)
Linnda R. Caporael
Some Unexplored Relationships of Essex County Witchcraft to the Indian Wars of 1675 and 1687 (1984)	270	(16)
James E. Kences
The Devil Discovered (1991)	286	(8)
Enders A. Robinson
A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials (1995)	294	(5)
Frances Hill
Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies (1996)	299	(8)
Elaine G. Breslaw
Part V Fiction	307	(84)
Pulp to Masterpieces	309	(82)
Rachel Dyer (1828)	309	(5)
John Neal
Young Goodman Brown (1835)	314	(11)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables (1851)	325	(16)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Witching Times (1857)	341	(10)
J. W. de Forest
Calef in Boston (1849)	351	(2)
John Greenleaf Whittier
Giles Corey of the Salem Farms (1868), act 1	353	(11)
H. W. Longfellow
Giles Corey (1893), act 3	364	(11)
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Mirror for Witches (1928)	375	(3)
Esther Forbes
The Road to Endor (1940)	378	(5)
Esther Hammand
``Why I Wrote The Crucible,'' (1996)	383	(8)
Arthur Miller
Notes	391	(6)
Bibliography	397	(4)
Index	401