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Detestable and Wicked Arts : New England and Witchcraft in the Early Modern Atlantic World.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2022Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (293 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501751073
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Detestable and Wicked ArtsDDC classification:
  • 364.188
LOC classification:
  • BF1576
Online resources:
Contents:
Detestable and Wicked Arts -- Contents -- List of Maps, Figures, and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction: The Devil in New England -- 1. "Hanged for a Witch": Witch-Hunting in New England before 1670 -- 2. "Being Instigated by the Devil": The Crime of Witchcraft -- 3. "A Forward, Discontented Frame of Spirit": The New England Witch -- 4. "The More Women, the More Witches": Gender and Witchcraft -- 5. "There Was Some Mischief in It": The Social Context of Witchcraft -- 6. "Very Awful and Amazing": Witch Panics and the Bewitched -- 7. "According to God's Law": Witch- Hunting as a Judicial Process -- Conclusion: The Case of Ann Burt and Witch-Hunting in the English Atlantic -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Detestable and Wicked Arts -- Contents -- List of Maps, Figures, and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction: The Devil in New England -- 1. "Hanged for a Witch": Witch-Hunting in New England before 1670 -- 2. "Being Instigated by the Devil": The Crime of Witchcraft -- 3. "A Forward, Discontented Frame of Spirit": The New England Witch -- 4. "The More Women, the More Witches": Gender and Witchcraft -- 5. "There Was Some Mischief in It": The Social Context of Witchcraft -- 6. "Very Awful and Amazing": Witch Panics and the Bewitched -- 7. "According to God's Law": Witch- Hunting as a Judicial Process -- Conclusion: The Case of Ann Burt and Witch-Hunting in the English Atlantic -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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