A collection of materials, including historical documents and fiction and non-fiction writings, that examine how witches and magicians were portrayed in print and manuscript from 1550 to 1850.
Examines the role witchcraft played in early American culture, focusing on witchcraft cases in New England during the colonial period, and explains why the colonists' views on witchcraft still matter to the modern world.
Alphabetically arranged entries provide information on every aspect of witchcraft, including its history, practices, traditions, influential figures, and tools.
a new interpretation of the New England witch trials
Carlson, Laurie M.
1999
Presents evidence to support the author's theory that the strange physical and mental symptoms experienced by the residents of Salem Village, Massachusetts in 1692, which were at the time attributed to witchcraft, were actually caused by encephalitis.
Two powerful young enchanters, Cat, the future Chrestomanci, and Marianne, who is being trained to be Gammer of the Pinhoes, work together as friends to try to end an illegal witches' war and, in the process, right some old wrongs.
Presents a history of the Salem witch trials that occurred in Massachusetts in 1692; and profiles those responsible for the hysteria and those who were martyred.
