Record Nr.

UNINA9910808688303321

Autore

Demos John Putnam

Titolo

Entertaining Satan : Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, USA, , 2004

ISBN

1-280-53318-8

1-283-42705-2

9786613427052

9786610533183

0-19-972631-0

Edizione

[New Edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (560 pages)

Disciplina

133.430974

974/.02

Soggetti

New England -- Social life and customs -- 17th century

Witchcraft -- New England -- History -- 17th century

Witchcraft - History - 17th century - New England

Magic

Superstitions

Spiritual Therapies

Complementary Therapies

Culture

Anthropology, Cultural

Therapeutics

Anthropology

Social Sciences

Parapsychology & Occult Sciences

New England Social life and customs 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Introduction; ONE: BIOGRAPHY; 1. ""A Desolate Condition""; 2. ""Peace with No Man""; 3. Witches: A Collective Portrait; TWO: PSYCHOLOGY; 4. ""A Diabolical Distemper""; 5. ""Let Me Do What I Could""; 6. Accusers, Victims, Bystanders: The Innerlife Dimension;

THREE: SOCIOLOGY; 7. ""The Mind of Our Town""; 8. ""Hard Thoughts and Jealousies""; 9. Communities: The Social Matrix of Witchcraft; FOUR: HISTORY; 10. ""From Generation to Generation""; 11. ""Hearts Against Hearts""; 12. Communities: Witchcraft over Time

Appendix: List of Known Witchcraft Cases in Seventeenth-Century New EnglandNotes; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Name Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

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 By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England during the witchcraft trials and brought to light fascinating information on the role of witchcraft in early American culture. Now Demos has revisited his original work and updated it to illustrate why these early Americans' strange views on witchcraft still matter to us today. He provides a new Preface tha