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Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England

by John Putnam Demos · 1982

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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.

Subject
history
Genre
witchparanormal
Themes
american historyreligionwitchhistory
Setting
17th centurynew england
Audience
adult
Length
long · 560 pages

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