A traditional interpretation of witchcraft / John Fiske -- A new interpretation of witchcraft / Lawrence Stone -- Satan's attack on New England / Cotton Mather -- An attack on the trials / Robert Calef -- The lessons of Salem / John Hale -- The afflicted girls were lying / Charles W. Upham -- Some of the witches were guilty / Chadwick Hansen -- A physician diagnoses hysteria / Ernest Caulfield -- A biologist diganoses disease / Linnda R. Caporael -- The disease diagnosis disputed / Nicholas P. Spanos and Jack Gottlieb -- A small chapter in an old superstition / George L. Kittredge -- The Puritans and the witches / Perry Miller -- Underlying themes / John Demos -- Witchcraft and social disruption / Kai T. Erikson -- A clash of two worlds / Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum.