Witchcraft, Magic, and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts

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The Salem witchcraft persecutions are one of the crucial well-known events in history, but there is more to the story. In this book, Weisman explores the social, political, and spiritual implications of witchcraft. He ventures outdoor of the standard studies of the Salem trials to provide a comprehensive understanding of 17th-century Massachusetts witchcraft as a whole. In the first section, an attempt is made to explicate the logic and meaning of the two major interpretive frameworks of witchcraft with regards to which the category was once understood by inhabitants of Massachusetts Bay. The second one and third sections of this study handle the sources of fortify and resistance to collective actions against witchcraft prior to the Salem trials and all over the Salem trials respectively.

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