Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England - Softcover

Demos, John Putnam

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9780195033786: Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England

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ISBN 10: 0195033787 ISBN 13: 9780195033786

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1983

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Focusing on witchcraft reports and trials outside of Salem and utilizing case histories and psychological analyses, this study evaluates the incidents and trials within the context of late-seventeenth-century New England

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About the Author:

John Putnam Demos is at Yale University.

Review:

"Demos has done an excellent job of researching a subject of great interest today."--William C. Viser, Ouachita Baptist University

"With the publication of this book, the historical study of American witchcraft finally comes of age."--American Historical Review

"A work that sets the stage for the eruption in Salem and promises to transform the terms in which we understand that extravagant episode....A rewarding and fascinating achievement well worth reading."--American History Illustrated

"Beautifully written and exhaustively researched."--Virginia Quarterly Review

"Well written and easy to read....More than a history of witchcraft. It is placed within the wider social context and is thus a history of early New England culture....Very well documented."--History: Reviews of New Books

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