Entertaining Satan : witchcraft and the culture of early New England / John Putnam Demos.
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TextPublisher: New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2004Edition: Updated editionDescription: 1 online resource (558 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780199726318
- 0199726310
- Witchcraft -- New England -- History
- New England -- Social life and customs -- 17th century
- Magic
- Superstition
- Spiritual healing
- Therapeutics, Physiological
- Alternative medicine
- Culture
- Ethnology
- Therapeutics
- Anthropology
- Social sciences
- Magic
- Superstitions
- Spiritual Therapies
- Complementary Therapies
- Culture
- Anthropology, Cultural
- Therapeutics
- Anthropology
- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
- Social Sciences
- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
- Faith Healing
- Ethnology
- Nouvelle-Angleterre -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 17e siècle
- Magie
- Superstitions
- Guérison par la foi
- Médecines parallèles
- Culture
- Ethnologie
- Thérapeutique
- Anthropologie
- Sciences sociales
- illusion (performing art)
- culture note
- ethnology
- social anthropology
- anthropology
- social sciences
- 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)
- Manners and customs
- Witchcraft
- New England
- Parapsychology & Occult Sciences
- Social Sciences
- 1600-1699
- 133.430974 974/.02 23
- BF1576.D42
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
One: Biography -- "A desolate condition" -- "Peace with no man" -- Witches: a collective portrait -- Two: Psychology -- "A diabolical distemper" -- "Let me do what I could" -- Accusers, victims, bystanders: the innerlife dimension -- Three: Sociology -- "The mind of our town" -- "Hard thoughts and jealousies" -- Communities: the social matrix of witchcraft -- Four: History -- "From generation to generation" -- "Hearts against hearts" -- Communities: witchcraft over time -- Appendix: list of known witchcraft cases in seventeenth-century New England.
"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"--Publisher's description.
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