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Entertaining Satan : witchcraft and the culture of early 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 By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England du...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Demos, John (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Edición:Updated edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.