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" The devil of Great Island : "
Emerson W. Baker.
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BL
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997459
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b751829
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| Main Entry
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Baker, Emerson W.
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| Title & Author
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The devil of Great Island : : witchcraft and conflict in early New England /\ Emerson W. Baker.
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1st ed.
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New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2007.
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xii, 244 pages :: illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ;; 22 cm
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1403972079
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: 9781403972071
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-230) and index.
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| Contents
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The first stone is cast -- Evil things -- The Waltons -- The neighbors from hell -- Fences and neighbors -- Neighbors and witches -- Great Island's great matter -- The Mason family stakes its claim -- The spread of Lithobolia -- To Salem.
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In 1682, ten years before the infamous Salem witch trials, the town of Great Island, New Hampshire, was plagued by mysterious events: strange, demonic noises; unexplainable movement of objects; and hundreds of stones that rained upon a local tavern and appeared at random inside its walls. Town residents blamed what they called "Lithobolia" or "the stone-throwing devil." In this lively account, Emerson Baker shows how witchcraft hysteria overtook one town and spawned copycat incidents elsewhere in New England, prefiguring the horrors of Salem. In the process, he illuminates a cross-section of colonial society and overturns many popular assumptions about witchcraft in the seventeenth century.
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Witchcraft-- New Hampshire-- New Castle-- History-- 17th century.
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Hexerei
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Witchcraft.
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New Hampshire
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New Hampshire, New Castle.
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133.4/3097426
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BF1576.B25 2007
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