Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England: A Documentary History 1638-1693, Second Edition

Primary sources include court depositions as well as excerpts from the diaries and letters of contemporaries. They cover trials for witchcraft, reports of diabolical possessions, suits of defamation, and reports of preternatural events. Each section is preceded by headnotes that describe the case and its background and refer the reader to important secondary interpretations. In his incisive introduction, David D. Hall addresses a wide range of important issues: witchcraft lore, antagonistic social relationships, the vulnerability of women, religious ideologies, popular and learned understandings of witchcraft and the devil, and the role of the legal system. This volume is an extraordinarily significant resource for the study of gender, village politics, religion, and popular culture in seventeenth-century New England.

• The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
• Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
• Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft
• In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
• The Salem Witch Hunt: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture)
• The Witchcraft Sourcebook
• Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692 (New Narratives in American History)
• A Pocket Guide to Writing in History
• Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt
• A Pocket Guide to Writing in History