Entertaining Satan : witchcraft and the culture of early New England /

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"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 By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England du...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.
Temas:
1600-1699
Witchcraft > New England > History.
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
Magie.
Superstitions.
Guérison par la foi.
Médecines parallèles.
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.
Parapsychology & Occult Sciences.
Social Sciences.
New England > Social life and customs > 17th century.
Nouvelle-Angleterre > Mœurs et coutumes > 17e siècle.
New England.
History.
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.

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