Entertaining Satan. Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7440328 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip Greven, John Demos, John Putnam Demos |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 236-236 |
| Publication date | 1984-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2656 • E-ISSN: 1468-2303 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2505009 |
| OpenAlex | W2097802519 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 43 |
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 By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England during the witchcraft trials and brought to light fascinating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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Media Coverage of Unconventional Religion
"Crazy Brained"
Rural versus Urban Magic
The Cambridge History of Religions in America
Ergotism and the Salem witch panic
Masculinity and Male Witches in Old and New England, 1593-1680
The economics of Puritanism’s treatment of bewitchment
Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors and Gossip
The Long and Short of Salem Witchcraft
Millennium on the Northern Marches
The Visitation of Sarah Wight
Choosing Death
Zezuru turn of the screw
Black Magic
Deep in the earth a shining substance
Sleeping with the Enemy
Salem's Tragedy
Domestic dissent in the narrative of the persecution of Agnes Beaumont
Time and Social History
Archives and Informants
Two Worlds or One? Politics Inside and Outside The Consulting Room
Possession, exorcism and psychoanalysis
Fighting Words
They seem to have all died out’
Witchcraft in the Anglo-American Colonies
The Economics of Conversion and Salvation
Embedded Implication of Cultural Worldviews in the Use and Pattern of Magical Material Culture
Such perfecting of praise out of the mouth of a babe’
Witch doctors, soothsayers and priests. On cunning folk in European historiography and tradition
Why Witches? Some Comments on the Explanation of "Illusions" in Anthropology
Possessed by the Devil? A Very Public Dispute in Utrecht
Identity in three cohorts of midlife women
On the Use and Abuse of Biography
Witches and Witchbusters
The Colonial Town
Why Salem Made Sense
"Cows in the Corn, Pigs in the Garden, and "the Problem of Social Costs
De victime à accusé
Functional research on deviance
Justice by magic
Witch Hunts and Census Conflicts
Blasphemy and the Law of Religious Liberty in Nineteenth-Century America
| Unique citing works | 43 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2021 (39) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 40 |