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Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England Paperback - 2004

by John Putnam Demos

With a new Preface, the Bancroft Prize-winning "Entertaining Satan" puts forth a broad view of witchcraft and looks at its place around the world, from ancient times to the present. 3 maps.


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In the first edition of the Bancroft Prize-winning Entertaining Satan, John Putnam Demos presented an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England during the witchcraft trials and brought to light fascinating information on the role of witchcraft in early American culture. Now Demos has revisited his original work and updated it to illustrate why these early Americans' strange views on witchcraft still matter to us today. He provides a new preface that puts forth a broader overview of witchcraft and looks at its place around the world--from ancient times right up to the present.

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As the witchcraft drama of 1692 moved outward from its initial setting in Salem Village, one of the new characters added to the vast was an Ipswich woman named Rachel Clinton.

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  • Title Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
  • Author John Putnam Demos
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Updated
  • Pages 543
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Date 2004-11-18
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780195174830 / 0195174836
  • Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.43 x 5.58 x 1.37 in (21.41 x 14.17 x 3.48 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: New England
    • Topical: New Age
  • Library of Congress subjects Witchcraft - New England - History - 17th, New England - Social life and customs - 17th
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004054701
  • Dewey Decimal Code 974.02

About the author


John Putnam Demos is Samuel Knight Professor of History at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony and The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America.
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