witchcraft

Analyzes the phenomenon of witchcraft and discusses the various elements--primitive, classical, fairy-tale, pagan, historical, and modern--which have influenced its history.

In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.

Critical study of witchcraft throughout the ages, looking at its historical, anthropological, and religious manifestations.

Explores the political, economic and sociological issues that created the infamous Witch Trials of Salem.

Meridia, having grown up in a large and mysterious home in a town full of magic, spells, and demons where she felt ignored by her parents, marries a kind man when she is sixteen years old and is thrown into an uneasy relationship with her mother-in-law, while uncovering secrets in her and her husband's family's past.

Eighteen-year-old Agnes, a Mohawk Indian who is descended from a line of shamanic healers, uses her own newly-discovered powers to uncover the story of her ancestor, a seventeenth-century New England English healer who fled charges of witchcraft to make her life with the local Indians.