Search:

Results 1 to 10 of 49 |

Magic : a very short introduction / by Davies, Owen,1969-;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 114-130) and index.Introduction; 1. Anthropologies of magic; 2. Historical perspectives; 3. All in the mind?; 4. Writing magic; 5. Practising magic; 6. Magic and the modern world; Conclusion.A wide-ranging overview of how magic has been defined, understood and practiced over the millennia introduces it in today's world as a real force that helps people overcome misfortune, poverty and illness.
Subjects: Magic.; Witchcraft.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Witchcraft today : an encyclopedia of Wiccan and neopagan traditions / by Lewis, James R.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-326) and index.
Subjects: Witchcraft; Neopaganism; Magic;
© c1999., ABC-CLIO,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

The enemy within : 2,000 years of witch-hunting in the Western world / by Demos, John.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-307) and indexes.Martyrs of Lyons: a story from the beginning -- A witch-hunting panorama, 1500-1750 -- The Malleus maleficarum: a book and its travels -- Windsor, CT, 1654: a town under attack by Satan -- Witch-hunting in the American colonies, 1607-1692 -- Mary Parsons: a life under suspicion -- Rebecca Nurse: a "witch" and her trials -- The most famous witch-hunt of all, 1692-93 -- Rev. Cotton Mather: a minister and his demons -- Anti-Masonry: a politics of panic -- A saga of scares, 1700-2000 -- Fells Acres Day School: a question of abuse.
Subjects: Witchcraft;
© 2008., Viking,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Witchcraft in America [electronic resource] / by Saari, Peggy.; Shaw, Elizabeth M.,1973-; Gale Group.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Reader's guide -- Research and activity ideas -- Words to know -- Timeline of events -- Almanac -- Primary sources -- Biographies -- Where to learn more -- Index.This fascinating and informative source covers the history of witchcraft in the United States from the hysteria that facilitated the witch hunts during the colonial period to modern day followers of Wicca.Description based on print version record.
Subjects: Witchcraft; Witchcraft.;
© c2001., UXL,
On-line resources: https://libproxy.kirtland.edu/login?url=https://link.gale.com/apps/pub/9780787693206/GVRL?u=lom_kirtlandcc -- Available online. Click here to access.;
unAPI

The devil in Massachusetts : a modern enquiry into the Salem witch trials / by Starkey, Marion Lena.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [292]-301) and index.
Subjects: Trials (Witchcraft); Witchcraft;
© 1989, c1949., Anchor Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

A storm of witchcraft : the Salem trials and the American experience / by Baker, Emerson W.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-366) and index.Introduction: An old valueless cabinet -- Satan's storm -- The city upon a hill -- Drawing battle lines in Salem Village -- The aflicted -- The accused -- The judges -- An inextinguishable flame -- Salem end -- Witch City? -- Appendices."Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort their bodies, complaining of pins stuck into their flesh and of being haunted by specters. Believing that they suffered from assaults by an invisible spirit, the community began a hunt to track down those responsible for the demonic work. The resulting Salem Witch Trials, culminating in the execution of 19 villagers, persists as one of the most mysterious and fascinating events in American history. Historians have speculated on a web of possible causes for the witchcraft that stated in Salem and spread across the region-religious crisis, ergot poisoning, an encephalitis outbreak, frontier war hysteria--but most agree that there was no single factor. Rather, as Emerson Baker illustrates in this seminal new work, Salem was "a perfect storm": a unique convergence of conditions and events that produced something extraordinary throughout New England in 1692 and the following years, and which has haunted us ever since. Baker shows how a range of factors in the Bay colony in the 1690s, including a new charter and government, a lethal frontier war, and religious and political conflicts, set the stage for the dramatic events in Salem. Engaging a range of perspectives, he looks at the key players in the outbreak--the accused witches and the people they allegedly bewitched, as well as the judges and government officials who prosecuted them--and wrestles with questions about why the Salem tragedy unfolded as it did, and why it has become an enduring legacy." -- Amazon.com viewed on October 9, 2014.
Subjects: Trials (Witchcraft); Witchcraft;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Narratives of the New England witchcraft cases / by Burr, George Lincoln,1857-1938.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.From "An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences" / by Increase Mather, 1684 -- The New York cases of Hall and Harrison, 1665, 1670 -- "Lithobolia, or the Stone-throwing Devil" / by Richard Chamberlain, 1698 -- The Pennsylvania cases of Mattson, Hendrickson, and Guard, 1684, 1701 -- "Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions" / by Cotton Mather, 1689 -- "A Brief and True Narrative of Witchcraft at Salem Village" / by Deodat Lawson, 1692 -- Letter of Thomas Brattle, F.R.S., 1692 -- Letters of Governor Phips to the Home Government, 1692, 1693 -- From "The Wonders of the Invisible World" / by Cotton Mather, 1693 -- "A Brand Pluck'd Out of the Burning" / by Cotton Mather, 1693 -- From "More Wonders of the Invisible World" / by Robert Calef -- From "A Modest Inquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft" / by John Hale, 1702 -- The Virginia Case of Grace Sherwood, 1706.
Subjects: Witchcraft;
© 2002., Dover Publications,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Witchcraft in early North America / by Games, Alison,1963-;
Witchcraft in Early North America investigates European, African, and Indian witchcraft beliefs and their expression in colonial America. Alison Games's engaging book takes us beyond the infamous outbreak at Salem, Massachusetts, to look at how witchcraft was a central feature of colonial societies in North America. Her substantial and lively introduction orients readers to the subject and to the rich selection of documents that follows. The documents begin with first encounters between European missionaries and Native Americans in New France and New Spain, and they conclude with witch hunts among Native Americans in the years of the early American republic. The documents--some of which have never been published previously--include excerpts from trials in Virginia, New Mexico, and Massachusetts; accounts of outbreaks in Salem, Abiquiu (New Mexico), and among the Delaware Indians; descriptions of possession; legal codes; and allegations of poisoning by slaves. The documents raise issues central to legal, cultural, social, religious, and gender history.Section I. Witchcraft in early North America : an introduction -- Beliefs : Europeans -- Beliefs : west and west-central Africans -- Beliefs : Native Americans -- Colonization, witchcraft, and resistance -- New Mexico -- New France -- British North America -- Africans and their descendants in North America -- Outbreaks : putting Salem in context -- Confession -- Possession -- Prophets and witch hunts in the new United States -- Skepticism -- Notes -- Section II. Primary documents -- First impressions -- Fray Benavides sees wizards, sorcerers, and the demon in New Mexico, 1625-1627 -- Making sense of sickness in Huron Country, 1636-1637 : who's a witch? -- The execution of Isaac Jogues, 1646 -- Resistance and the Devil -- Andrš Přez de Ribas explains the origins of Tepehuan Revolt, 1616 -- Witchcraft, sorcery, and the Pueblo Revolt, 1680-1681 -- English witch beliefs cross the Atlantic -- The English Act against Conjuration, 1604 -- The law of the Colony of Connecticut, 1642 -- The case of Goodwife Wright, Virginia, 1626 -- The execution of Mary Lee en route to Maryland, 1654 -- The case of Grace Sherwood, Virginia, 1706 -- Governor Kaine Pardons Grace Sherwood, 2006 -- New worlds -- A case of witchcraft in New Mexico, 1708 -- Willem Bosman explains ritual use of poison in Guinea, 1704 -- South Carolina strengthens laws against poisoning and slave doctors, 1740, 1751 -- Items about poisoning from the South Carolina gazette, 1749, 1769 -- Poison at Monticello, 1800 -- Two cases of possession -- The possession of Elizabeth Knapp, Massachusetts, 1671-1672 -- Possession at Abiquiu, New Mexico, 1763-1764 -- Outbreaks -- The examinations of Tituba and Sarah Good, Salem, March 1, 1692 -- Nathaniel Cary's account of his wife's examination, May 1692 -- The examination of Candy, July 4, 1692 -- The petition of John Proctor, July 23, 1692 -- The examination of Mary Toothaker, July 30, 1692 -- The examinations of Abigail Faulkner, August 1692 -- Thomas Brattle's skepticism, 1692 -- Ann Putnam's confession, 1706 -- The code of Handsome Lake -- The code of the Shawnee prophet, circa 1812 -- The witch hunt at the White River Mission, 1806.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Witchcraft;
© c2010., Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

The encyclopedia of witches, witchcraft and wicca / by Guiley, Rosemary.; Guiley, Rosemary.Encyclopedia of witches and witchcraft.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-413) and index.
Subjects: Witchcraft; Witches;
© c2008., Checkmark Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

The Oxford handbook of witchcraft in early modern Europe and colonial America / by Levack, Brian P.,editor.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The essays in this handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries. During these years witches were thought to be evil people who used magical power to inflict physical harm or misfortune on their neighbours. Witches were also believed to have made pacts with the devil and sometimes to have worshipped him at nocturnal assemblies known as sabbaths. These beliefs provided the basis for defining witchcraft as a secular and ecclesiastical crime and prosecuting tens of thousands of women and men for this offence. The trials resulted in as many as fifty thousand executions. These essays study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingdoms and territories of Europe and in English, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies in the Americas.
Subjects: Witch hunting; Trials (Witchcraft); Witchcraft;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Results 1 to 10 of 49 |