History of Witchcraft
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Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
by John Putnam Demos  
Publisher Comments "Not having the fear of God before thine eyes thou hast entertained familiarity with Satan, the Great enemy of God and mankind..." In 1650 the town of Easthampton voted to bring this charge against one Elizabeth Garlick, who they said had "done works...
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Entertaining Satan Witchcraft Updated Edition
by John Putnam Demos Publisher Comments In the first edition of the Bancroft Prize-winning Entertaining Satan, John Putnam Demos presented an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he...
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The Devil in Massachusetts
by Marion L Starkey Publisher Comments This historical narrative of the Salem witch trials takes its dialogue from actual trial records but applies modern psychiatric knowledge to the witchcraft hysteria. Starkey's sense of drama also vividly recreates the atmosphere of pity and terror that...
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Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath
by Carlo Ginzburg Publisher Comments Weaving early accounts of witchcraft—trial records, ecclesiastical tracts, folklore, and popular iconography—into new and startling patterns, Carlo Ginzburg presents in Ecstasies compelling evidence of a hidden shamanistic culture that...
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Witchfinders: A Seventeenth Century English Tragedy
by Malcolm Gaskill Publisher Comments By spring 1645, two years of civil war had exacted a dreadful toll upon England. People lived in terror as disease and poverty spread, and the nation grew ever more politically divided. In a remote corner of Essex, two obscure gentlemen, Matthew Hopkins...
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Witchcraft at Salem
by Chadwick Hansen Publisher Comments Much has been written about the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692, and much misunderstood. In witchcraft at Salem Hansen provides a necessary and thoughtful reappraisal of this turbulent episode in American history....
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The History of Witchcraft
by Lois Martin Publisher Comments The witch in history was a very different creature from her modern counterpart, and this book sets out to explore the historical background to the European witchcraft phenomenon. It examines in detail the growth of the ideological, cultural and legal...
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The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England
by Emerson W Baker Publisher Comments In 1682, ten years before the infamous Salem witch trials, the town of Great Island, New Hampshire, was plagued by mysterious events: strange, demonic noises; unexplainable movement of objects; and hundreds of stones that rained upon a local tavern and...
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History of Witchcraft 2ND Edition
by Jeffrey B Russell Publisher Comments "It separates centuries of supernatural nonsense from documented fact… spellbinding."--"Los Angeles Times" <BR>For nearly thirty years, Jeffrey B. Russell's authoritative book has been the one illustrated history to which anyone interested...
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World of the Witches
by Julio Baroja Synopsis The rise and decline of witchcraft around the world, as seen through the perceptive eyes of an anthropologist and historian well-acquainted with traditional Basque and Spanish folklore--which inspired this fascinating, macabre, and chilling book...
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The Salem Witch Trials (At Issue in History)
by Laura Marvel Synopsis The execution of 20 people accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692 continues to haunt Americans and perplex historians today. The selections in this book offer a variety of perspectives on the Salem witch crisis....
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Witchcraft in Europe, 1100-1700: A Documentary History
by Alan C Kors
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Night's Black Agents: Witches Wizards and the Dead in the Ancient World
by Daniel Ogden
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Magic Witchcraft & Religion 3RD Edition
by Arthur C Lehmann Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 418-449) and index....
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Behind the Crystal Ball: Magic, Science, and the Occult from Antiquity Through the New Age
by Anthony F. Aveni Publisher Comments From ancient times to the present, magic and science have always been intertwined. In this fascinating book, astronomer/anthropologist Anthony Aveni conducts a whirlwind tour of occult practices -- from astrology, alchemy, and phrenology to psychokinesis,...
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Salem: Place, Myth, and Memory
by Dane Antho Morrison Publisher Comments A superb collection of essays on Salem's rich history and cultural life over the past four centuries....
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A Trial of Witches: A Seventeenth-Century Witchcraft Prosecution
by Gilbert Geis Publisher Comments A case study of the witchcraft trial of two women in 1662 Lowestoft, England, including a description of the accusers and prosecutors and an analysis of the trial itself, which was cited as a precedent in the Salem witchcraft trials....
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Cotton Mather on Witchcraft
by Cotton Mather
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Diary of Dorcas Good Child Witch of Sale
by Rose Earhart
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Demonolatry
by Nicolas Remy
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