| Description |
xiv, 550 pages ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-532) and indexes. |
| Contents |
I. Christian Perspectives on Witchcraft in Europe and North America 13 -- 1. Methods of the Devil / Heinrich Kramer, Jacob Sprenger 21 -- 2. On Witchcraft / Reginald Scot 28 -- 3. Discovery of Witches: In Answer to Several Queries / Matthew Hopkins 37 -- 4. On Witches and Witchcraft / Cotton Mather 42 -- 5. Non-Existent Society of Witches / Norman Cohn 49 -- 6. Relevance of Social Anthropology to the Historical Study of English Witchcraft / Keith Thomas 60 -- 7. Scottish Witchcraft in Its Comparative Setting / Christina Larner 72 -- 8. Witchcraft and Puritan Beliefs / Richard Weisman 77 -- 9. A World of Wonders / David Hall 89 -- II. Non-Christian Beliefs 97 -- A. Europeans and North American Colonists -- 10. Night Battles / Carlo Ginzburg 107 -- 11. Night-Witch in Popular Imagination / Norman Cohn 117 -- 12. Image Magic and the Like / George Lyman Kittredge 126 -- 13. Divining, Healing, and Destroying / Richard Godbeer 132 -- B. Africans -- 14. Activities of African Witches / Geoffrey Parrinder 145 -- 15. Witchcraft among the Azande / E. E. Evans-Pritchard 153 -- C. African Americans -- 16. Magical Practices and Beliefs / Philip D. Morgan 169 -- 17. Archaeological Evidence for a Possible Witch in Barbados, West Indies / Jerome Handler 176 -- 18. An Afro-American Folk Religion / William D. Piersen 181 -- D. American Indians -- 19. Indian Response / Fernando Cervantes 189 -- 20. Indian Shamans and English Witches / Alfred Cave 196 -- 21. Pueblo Witchcraft / Marc Simmons 204 -- 22. Medicine Man and the Kanaima / Walter E. Roth 213 -- 23. Factions and Exclusions in Two South American Village Systems / Peter Riviere 221 -- III. Diabolical Possession 229 -- 24. Possession of Elizabeth Knapp of Groton / Samuel Willard 235 -- 25. Bewitchment of the Goodwin Children / Cotton Mather 246 -- 26. Classic Accusers: The Possessed / Joseph Klaits 259 -- 27. Possession and Dispossession / Keith Thomas 267 -- 28. Witchcraft in New England / Chadwick Hansen 272 -- 29. Witchcraft: The "Captivity to Spectres" / Richard Slotkin 277 -- IV. Gender 283 -- 30. Why Women Are Chiefly Addicted to Evil Superstitions / Heinrich Kramer, Jacob Sprenger 289 -- 31. Character of a Virtuous Woman / Cotton Mather 296 -- 32. Two Sermons on Women and the Devil / Samuel Willard 300 -- 33. Making of the Great Witch-Hunt / Norman Cohn 305 -- 34. Myth of the Improved Status of Protestant Women: The Case of the Witchcraze / Allison P. Coudert 309 -- 35. Devil, the Body, and the Feminine Soul in Puritan New England / Elizabeth Reis 322 -- 36. Words, Witches, and Woman Trouble / Jane Kamensky 330 -- 37. Economic Basis of Witchcraft / Carol F. Karlsen 337 -- 38. Who Were the Witches? / Christina Larner 347 -- V. Salem: A Case Study of the Primary Documents 355 -- A. Legal Procedures -- 39. Conjuration and Witches / Michael Dalton 365 -- 40. On the Identification of a Witch / William Perkins 369 -- B. Accused -- 41. Examination of Tituba 377 -- 42. Examination of Rebecca Nurse 381 -- 43. Examination of Bridget Bishop 385 -- 44. Narrative of the Salem Events / Deodat Lawson 389 -- C. Accusers -- 45. Elizabeth Hubbard against Tituba 399 -- 46. Abigail Williams against Tituba and Rebecca Nurse 400 -- 47. Ann Putnam, Jr., against Rebecca Nurse 402 -- 48. Deliverance Hobbs against Bridget Bishop 403 -- 49. John Hale against Bridget Bishop 405 -- 50. Advice of the Clergy 407 -- D. Doubters -- 51. A Multitude of Errors / Thomas Brattle 411 -- 52. Apology of the Jury 420 -- 53. That Sad Catastrophe / John Hale 422 -- VI. Historians' Commentaries on the Salem Case 427 -- 54. Witchcraft at Salem Village / Charles Upham 430 -- 55. Witchcraft, the Courts, and Countermagic / Richard Godbeer 437 -- 56. Tituba's Confession: The Multicultural2 Dimensions of the 1692 Salem Witch-Hunt / Elaine G. Breslaw 444 -- 57. Through the Clouds / Larry Gragg 454 -- VII. Medical and Psychological Interpretations 465 -- 58. Ergot and the Salem Witchcraft Affair / Mary K. Matossian 467 -- 59. Ergot, Demonic Possession, and Hallucinogenic Drugs / H. Sidky 472 -- 60. Underlying Themes in the Witchcraft of Seventeenth-Century New England / John Demos 480 -- VIII. Salem Legacy 489 -- 61. An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft and Dealing with Evil and / Wicked Spirits 495 -- 62. Altered Lives / Elaine G. Breslaw 499 -- 63. 1692: Some New Perspectives / Paul Boyer, Stephen Nissenbaum 507 -- 64. Invisible World at the Vanishing Point / Richard Weisman 512 -- 65. Magic, Astrology, and the Early American Religious Heritage, 1600-1760 / Jon Butler 516. |
| Subject |
Witchcraft -- History -- Sources.
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| Added Author |
Breslaw, Elaine G., 1932-
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| ISBN |
0814798500 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780814798508 cloth alkaline paper |
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0814798519 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780814798515 paperback alkaline paper |
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