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Entertaining Satan : Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Demos, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New England--Social life and customs--17th century.
- Witchcraft--New England--History--17th century.
- Witchcraft--History--17th century--New England.
- Witchcraft.
- Magic.
- Superstitions.
- Spiritual Therapies.
- Complementary Therapies.
- Culture.
- Anthropology, Cultural.
- Therapeutics.
- Anthropology.
- Social Sciences.
- New England.
- Medical Subjects:
- Magic.
- Superstitions.
- Spiritual Therapies.
- Complementary Therapies.
- Culture.
- Anthropology, Cultural.
- Therapeutics.
- Anthropology.
- Social Sciences.
- Local Subjects:
- New England--Social life and customs--17th century.
- Witchcraft--New England--History--17th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (560 pages)
- Edition:
- New Edition
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England during the witchcraft trials and brought to light fascinating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
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Introduction; ONE: BIOGRAPHY; 1. ""A Desolate Condition""; 2. ""Peace with No Man""; 3. Witches: A Collective Portrait; TWO: PSYCHOLOGY; 4. ""A Diabolical Distemper""; 5. ""Let Me Do What I Could""; 6. Accusers, Victims, Bystanders: The Innerlife Dimension; THREE: SOCIOLOGY; 7. ""The Mind of Our Town""; 8. ""Hard Thoughts and Jealousies""; 9. Communities: The Social Matrix of Witchcraft; FOUR: HISTORY; 10. ""From Generation to Generation""; 11. ""Hearts Against Hearts""; 12. Communities: Witchcraft over Time
- Appendix: List of Known Witchcraft Cases in Seventeenth-Century New EnglandNotes; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Name Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-532) and indexes.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-53318-8
- 1-283-42705-2
- 9786613427052
- 9786610533183
- 0-19-972631-0
- OCLC:
- 609831275
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