The devil's dominion : magic and religion in early New England /
Richard Godbeer.
- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
- x, 253 p. ; hbk ; 24 cm.
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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Witchcraft--New England. Witchcraft--History.--New England