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Witchcraft in Early North America investigates European, African, and Indian witchcraft beliefs and their expression in colonial America. Alison Games's engaging book takes us beyond the infamous outbreak at Salem, Massachusetts, to look at how witchcraft was a central feature of colonial socie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Games, Alison, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2010.
Colección:American controversies series.
Temas:
Witchcraft > United States > History.
Sorcellerie > États-Unis > Histoire.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Magick Studies.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Witchcraft & Wicca.
Witchcraft
United States
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Section I. Witchcraft in early North America : an introduction
  • Beliefs : Europeans
  • Beliefs : west and west-central Africans
  • Beliefs : Native Americans
  • Colonization, witchcraft, and resistance
  • New Mexico
  • New France
  • British North America
  • Africans and their descendants in North America
  • Outbreaks : putting Salem in context
  • Confession
  • Possession
  • Prophets and witch hunts in the new United States
  • Skepticism
  • Notes
  • Section II. Primary documents
  • First impressions
  • Fray Benavides sees wizards, sorcerers, and the demon in New Mexico, 1625-1627
  • Making sense of sickness in Huron Country, 1636-1637 : who's a witch?
  • The execution of Isaac Jogues, 1646
  • Resistance and the Devil
  • Andrés Pérez de Ribas explains the origins of Tepehuan Revolt, 1616
  • Witchcraft, sorcery, and the Pueblo Revolt, 1680-1681
  • English witch beliefs cross the Atlantic
  • The English Act against Conjuration, 1604
  • The law of the Colony of Connecticut, 1642
  • The case of Goodwife Wright, Virginia, 1626
  • The execution of Mary Lee en route to Maryland, 1654
  • The case of Grace Sherwood, Virginia, 1706
  • Governor Kaine Pardons Grace Sherwood, 2006
  • New worlds
  • A case of witchcraft in New Mexico, 1708
  • Willem Bosman explains ritual use of poison in Guinea, 1704
  • South Carolina strengthens laws against poisoning and slave doctors, 1740, 1751
  • Items about poisoning from the South Carolina gazette, 1749, 1769
  • Poison at Monticello, 1800
  • Two cases of possession
  • The possession of Elizabeth Knapp, Massachusetts, 1671-1672
  • Possession at Abiquiu, New Mexico, 1763-1764
  • Outbreaks
  • The examinations of Tituba and Sarah Good, Salem, March 1, 1692
  • Nathaniel Cary's account of his wife's examination, May 1692
  • The examination of Candy, July 4, 1692
  • The petition of John Proctor, July 23, 1692
  • The examination of Mary Toothaker, July 30, 1692
  • The examinations of Abigail Faulkner, August 1692
  • Thomas Brattle's skepticism, 1692
  • Ann Putnam's confession, 1706
  • The code of Handsome Lake
  • The code of the Shawnee prophet, circa 1812
  • The witch hunt at the White River Mission, 1806.

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