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" Witchcraft in America / "
Peggy Saari ; Elizabeth Shaw, editor.
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BL
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997027
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b751397
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| Main Entry
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Saari, Peggy.
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| Title & Author
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Witchcraft in America /\ Peggy Saari ; Elizabeth Shaw, editor.
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| Publication Statement
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Detroit :: U.X.L.,, ©2001.
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xxxvii, 235 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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0787648353
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: 9780787648350
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Reader's guide -- Research and activity ideas -- Words to know -- Timeline of events -- Almanac. Witchcraft in Europe -- Witch-hunts in Puritan New England -- Salem Town and Salem Village -- Salem witch trials and executions -- The aftermath of the Salem trials -- Neo-paganism -- Primary sources. Heinrich Kramer and Jakob Sprenger: excerpts from Malleus maleficarum (Hammer of witches, 1486) -- Increase Mather: excerpt from "Remarkable providences" (1684) -- Cotton Mather and Ezekial Cheever: the Salem Trials: interrogation of Susannah Martin -- Rebecca Nurse: examination of Rebecca Nurse (1691-92) -- Ann Putnam, Sr.: the testimony of Ann Putnam, Sr. against Martha Corey and Rebecca Nurse (1692) -- Thomas Knowlton: Witchcraft 1687: the deposition of Thomas Knowlton -- Cotton Mather: excerpt from The wonders of the invisible world (1693) -- Samuel Sewall: excerpts from the diary entries of Samuel Sewall -- Samuel Sewall: apology of Samuel Sewall (1697) -- Robert Calef: excerpt from More wonders of the invisible world (1700) -- Ann Putnam, Jr.: apology of Ann Putnam, Jr. (1706) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne: excerpt from "Young Goodman Brown" (1846) -- Carl L. Weschke: excerpt from "Principles of Wiccan belief" -- Biographies. Bridget Bishop (1640-1692) -- Robert Calfef (1648-1719) -- Rachel Clinton (b.1629) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64) -- Cotton Mather (1663-1728) -- Sameul Parris (1653-1720) -- John Proctor (d. 1692) -- Ann Putnam, Jr. (1680-1717) -- Samuel Sewall (1652-1730) -- Tituba (dates not known).
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| Abstract
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Traces the history of witchcraft in the New World, from the hysteria of the Salem witch hunts to the modern-day renaissance of the Wiccan religion.
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Witchcraft-- United States-- History, Juvenile literature.
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Witchcraft-- History.
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Hexenglaube
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Witchcraft.
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Hekserij.
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Neuengland
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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133.4/3/0973
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| LC Classification
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BF1573.S23 2001
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15.85bcl
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73.58bcl
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LC 41610rvk
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Shaw, Elizabeth M.,1973-
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