...This chapter discusses an unusual tale of witchcraft and warfare that preyed upon the deepest fears of Cotton's Plymouth neighbors. Tensions were running high in town during the spring of 1740 as Spanish privateers roamed the New England coast committing “Depredations & Barbarities...

... as well as of men, or how they would write about Puritans if they explored the lives of women as well as of men. Furthermore, the book examines how historians would tell the story of Judaism, witchcraft, Mormonism, the origins of the Catholic Church in the United States, or the women's rights movement...

... orthodoxy by insisting that witchcraft, heresy, and dissent were all forms of “feminine” deviance. More specifically, the book examines how the language of illicit sexuality and sexual metaphor was employed in describing witches, the ultimate blasphemers and heretics. Historiography and objectivity question...

...In 1919, Cuba was swept by a “militant Negrophobia” characterized by a public fright of witchcraft, or brujería. A group of blacks called the negros brujos were suspected by white families of abducting and sacrificing their children. Many Afro-Cubans, especially males, were confronted...

... of American women can transform our dominant historical narratives. Covering a variety of topics—including Mormonism, the women's rights movement, Judaism, witchcraft trials, the civil rights movement, Catholicism, everyday religious life, Puritanism, African American women's activism, and the Enlightenment...

...This chapter illustrates why it is important to include women in narrative histories of Puritanism and why examining the experiences of both women and men changes our historical understanding of Puritanism. It highlights Puritan attitudes toward divine revelation and witchcraft by focusing on how...

... exchanges over matters of belief in relation to issues of citizenship and governance. It also considers the direct links that were forged between misbelief, fantasy, and religious forms that authorities found objectionable. Furthermore, the book examines how African-derived “witchcraft,” Spiritism, popular...

... and Cherokee beliefs about witchcraft and European literacy. Aldridge William Bath England Bible Calvinists Discourse community God Hastings Selina countess of Huntingdon Holy Spirit Huntingdon Connexion Literacy Marrant John Old Testament Scripture Speech Whitefield George Cherokees...

... outbreaks of superstition were debated, matters of citizenship were usually at stake. The book links the circulation of spectacular charges of witchcraft and miracle-making to anxieties surrounding newly expanded citizenries that included people of color. It also contributes to the understanding...

...This chapter narrates the 1692 Salem witchcraft trial. On 9 May of that year, George Burroughs was found guilty of torturing several girls, all under the age of 19. According to this chapter, the events at Salem represented an era of emerging Enlightenment modernity, rather than a sign of fading...

... Sabha Bhagavad Gita Krishna burial cremation sadhus relation obeah spirits Afro-Caribbean religions death witchcraft trials religion and law What our Saviour Christ is to Christianity, Shri Krishn is to Hinduism and Mohomet to Islamism. The granting therefore of similar aids, to Hindoos...

...This chapter illustrates puritan magistrates' growing reluctance to prosecute and convict witches as being frequently attributed to two factors: ministerial insistence on obtaining proof that a suspected witch had made a compact with the devil; and increasing skepticism about witchcraft itself...

... crimes in jail. This chapter suggests that the contrasts in the healers' careers could be attributed to the rise of a governing regime seeking to establish a modern and rational political order. It considers the role of Manso and Mustelier in constituting the reality of African “witchcraft,” or brujería...

.... The book demonstrates the influence of Winthrop and his philosophy on New England's cultural formation: its settlement, economy, religious toleration, Indian relations, medical practice, witchcraft prosecution, and imperial diplomacy. It reconceptualizes the significance of early modern science in shaping...

...When they were accused of being witches, Candy and Mary Black, two Black African women who lived in Salem, gave testimony in their defense. While their testimony has long been ignored, their speech acts reflect the perspective of Black Africans on witchcraft, community, and the law. Candy’s speech...