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Product Description: Early New Englanders used magical techniques to divine the future, to heal the sick, to protect against harm and to inflict harm. Protestant ministers of the time claimed that religious faith and magical practice were incompatible, and yet, as Richard Godbeer shows, there were significant affinities between the two that enabled layfolk to switch from one to the other without any immediate sense of wrongdoing...read more
Hardcover:
9780521403290, titled "The Devil's Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England" | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1992, cover price $51.99 | also contains The Devil''s Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England | About this edition: Early New Englanders used magical techniques to divine the future, to heal the sick, to protect against harm and to inflict harm.
Hardcover:
9780405084669, titled "Annals of Witchcraft in New England and Elsewhere in the United States" | Reprint edition (Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1967), cover price $25.95 | also contains Annals of Witchcraft in New England and Elsewhere in the United States
Prebinding:
9781417823338 | Turtleback Books, April 1, 2008, cover price $17.25
Product Description: This balanced account of the Salem Village witchcraft trials, including the events leading up to them, was first printed in 1702. The book was written by Reverend John Hale, the pastor of the church in Beverly, Massachusetts. He concludes with the theory that it was Satan, not the witches, who used the manipulation of objects to afflict others...read more
Paperback:
9781557091826 | Applewood Books, September 30, 2006, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This balanced account of the Salem Village witchcraft trials, including the events leading up to them, was first printed in 1702.
Hardcover:
9780844670201 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1999, cover price $33.00
9780393024784 | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 1987, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Analyzes the belief in witchcraft in colonial times, looks at the characteristics of those charged and their accusers, and discusses Puritan attitudess toward women
Paperback:
9780393317596 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1998, cover price $17.95
9780679721840 | Vintage Books, November 1, 1989, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Analyzes the belief in witchcraft in colonial times, looks at the characteristics of those charged and their accusers, and discusses Puritan attitudes toward women
Early New Englanders used magical techniques to divine the future, to heal the sick, to protect against harm and to inflict harm. Protestant ministers of the time claimed that religious faith and magical practice were incompatible, and yet, as Richard Godbeer shows, there were significant affinities between the two that enabled layfolk to switch from one to the other without any immediate sense of wrongdoing. Godbeer argues that the different perspectives on witchcraft engendered by magical tradition and Puritan doctrine often caused confusion and disagreement when New Englanders sought legal punishment of witches. (view table of contents)
Hardcover:
9780521403290, titled "The Devil's Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England" | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1992, cover price $51.99 | also contains Reproducibility: Principles, Problems, and Practices | About this edition: Early New Englanders used magical techniques to divine the future, to heal the sick, to protect against harm and to inflict harm.
Paperback:
9780521466707, titled "The Devil's Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England" | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 1994, cover price $44.99
Hardcover:
9780833740175 | Burt Franklin, June 1, 1972, cover price $29.50
Paperback:
9780689702921 | Atheneum, February 1, 1972, cover price $4.75 | About this edition: A documented study of witchcraft and witchhunting in Tudor England and colonial America
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9780911658866 | Yankee Books, June 1, 1971, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Stories and legends tell of ghosts, devils, witches, vampires, and strange and eerie incidents in New England
Hardcover:
9780804601443 | Associated Faculty Pr Inc, June 1, 1969, cover price $19.50
Hardcover:
9780405084669 | Reprint edition (Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1967), cover price $25.95 | also contains Threshold
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