TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moyer,Paul Benjamin
TI  - Detestable and wicked arts: New England and witchcraft in the early modern Atlantic world 
SN  - 9781501751073
AV  - BF1576 .M69 2020
U1  - 364.1/88 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Ithaca, New York
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Witchcraft
KW  - New England
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Sorcellerie
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 17e siècle
KW  - HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : The Devil in New England -- "Hanged for a Witch" : Witch-hunting in New England before 1670 -- "Being instigated by the Devil" : The Crime of Witchcraft -- "A forward, discontented frame of spirit" : The New England Witch -- "The more women, the more witches" : Gender and Witchcraft -- "There was some mischief in it" : The Social Context of Witchcraft -- "Very awful and amazing" : Witch Panics and the Bewitched -- "According to God's Law" : Witch-hunting as a Judicial Process -- Conclusion : The Case of Ann Burt and Witch-hunting in the English Atlantic
N2  - "While interpersonal, local, and regional contexts are critical to the analysis of witch-hunting in early New England, this book shows that a full understanding of the Puritan colonies' battle against black magic can only be achieved by placing it in a trans-Atlantic perspective"--
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