Vexed with Devils : : Manhood and Witchcraft in Old and New England / / Erika Gasser.
Stories of witchcraft and demonic possession from early modern England through the last official trials in colonial New EnglandThose possessed by the devil in early modern England usually exhibited a common set of symptoms: fits, vomiting, visions, contortions, speaking in tongues, and an antipathy...
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| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Places ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Possession, Gender, and Power
- 1 Discerning Demonic Possession and Witchcraft- Possession in Early Modern England
- 2 Engendering English Witchcraft- Possession: The Samuel Family in Warboys
- 3 Disputing Possession in England: Samuel Harsnett versus John Darrell
- 4 Engendering New England Witchcraft- Possession: George Burroughs in Salem
- 5 Disputing Possession in New England: Robert Calef versus Cotton Mather
- Epilogue: Continuity and Patriarchy at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author