Entertaining Satan: witchcraft and the culture of early New England

Biography

"A desolate condition"

"Peace with no man"

Witches: A collective portrait

Psychology

"A diabolical distemper"

"Let me do what I could"

Accusers, victims, bystanders: The innerlife dimension

Sociology

"The mind of our town"

"Hard thoughts and jealousies"

Communities: The social matrix of witchcraft

History

"From generation to generation"

"Hearts against hearts"

Communities: Witchcraft over time

List of known witchcraft cases in seventeenth-century New England.

One biography

"A desolate condition

"Peace with no man"

Witches: a collective portrait

Two psychology

"A diabolical distemper"

"Let me do what I could"

Accusers, victims, bystanders: the innerlife dimension

Three sociology

"The mind of our town"

"Hard thoughts and jealousies"

Communities: the social matrix of witchcraft

"From generation to generation"

"Hearts against hearts"

Communities: witchcraft over time

Appendix: list of known witchcraft cases in seventeenth-century New England.