The Devil in the Shape of a Woman, 1st Edition
Witchcraft in Colonial New England
$28.80
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
8 January 2010
Summary
Confessing to “familiarity with the devils,” Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut officials in 1648. A wealthy Boston widow, Ann Hibbens was hanged in 1656 for casting spells on her neighbors. The case of Ann Cole, who was “taken with very strange Fits,” fueled an outbreak of witchcraft accusations in Hartford a generation before the notorious events at Salem.
More than three hundred years later, the question “Why?” still haunts us. Why were these and other women likel…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780393317596 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0393317595 |
| Author: | Carol F. Karlsen |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Imprint: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 8 January 2010 |
| Weight: | 295g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 140mm x 208mm |
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Critics Review
“A remarkable achievement. The ‘witches’ come alive in this book, not as stereotypes, but as real women living in a society that suspected and feared their independence and combativeness.”
“A remarkable achievement. The ‘witches’ come alive in this book, not as stereotypes, but as real women living in a society that suspected and feared their independence and combativeness.” – Mary Beth Norton, Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History, Cornell University
Carol F. Karlsen
Carol F. Karlsen is professor of history at the University of Michigan.
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