Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
Between the late 1630's and 1700 dozens of New England towns supported proceedings against witchcraft. The total of cases was over a hundred, at least forty of the defendants were put to death. Numerous additional cases went unrecorded.
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- 1978
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- WitchcraftColonial New EnglandPuritan culture
Awards
- Bancroft PrizeWon(1983)
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1983)
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