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Entertaining Satan [electronic resource] : witchcraft and the culture of early New England / John Putnam Demos.

Demos, John (Author).

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 By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England during the witchcraft trials and brought to light fascinating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 tha.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780199726318
  • ISBN: 0199726310
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (558 pages)
  • Edition: Updated ed.
  • Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, USA, 2004.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Contents; Introduction; ONE: BIOGRAPHY; TWO: PSYCHOLOGY; THREE: SOCIOLOGY; FOUR: HISTORY; Appendix: List of Known Witchcraft Cases in Seventeenth-Century New England; Notes; Subject Index; Name Index.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: Witchcraft > New England > History.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Magick Studies.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Witchcraft & Wicca.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Witchcraft.
New England
Genre: Electronic books.
History.

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