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The devil's dominion : magic and religion in early New England / Richard Godbeer.

By: Publication details: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.Description: x, 253 p. ; hbk ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0521403294 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 133.43/GOD
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Contents:
Magical experiments: divining, healing and destroying in seventeenth-century New England -- The serpent that lies if the grass unseen: clerical and lay opposition to magic -- Entertaining Satan: sin, suffering and countermagic -- Sinful curiosity: astrological discourse in early New England -- Insufficiant grounds of conviction: witchcraft, the courts and countermagic -- Rapd of a whole colony: the 1692 witch hunt -- Epilogue.
Appendices : A : Witchcraft trials in seventeenth-century New England (excluding persons accused during the Salem witch hunt). B : Persons accused during the Salem witch hunt.
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Based on the author's thesis, Brandeis University.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Magical experiments: divining, healing and destroying in seventeenth-century New England --
The serpent that lies if the grass unseen: clerical and lay opposition to magic --
Entertaining Satan: sin, suffering and countermagic --
Sinful curiosity: astrological discourse in early New England --
Insufficiant grounds of conviction: witchcraft, the courts and countermagic --
Rapd of a whole colony: the 1692 witch hunt --
Epilogue.

Appendices :
A : Witchcraft trials in seventeenth-century New England (excluding persons accused during the Salem witch hunt).
B : Persons accused during the Salem witch hunt.

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