Witches of the Atlantic World by Elaine G. Breslaw

Witches of the Atlantic World sheds new light on one of the most perplexing aspects of American history and provides important background for the continued scholarly and popular interest in witches and witchcraft today. Together the materials demonstrate how the Protestant and Catholic traditions shaped American concepts, and how multicultural aspects played a key role in the Salem experience. Breslaw This unique anthology is the first to provide a multicultural perspective on witchcraft from the 15th to 18th century.

Organized into sections on folklore and magic, diabolical possession, Christian perspectives, and the question of gender, the volume includes selections by Cotton Mather, Matthew Hopkins, and Samuel Willard, among others Salem trial testimonies and commentary by a host of distinguished scholars. Witches of the Atlantic World: An Historical Reader and Primary Sourcebook a book by Elaine G. (New York: New York University Press, 2000),21-27,289-95. Witches of the Atlantic World: An Historical Reader and Primary Sourcebook Paperback 15 September 2000 by Breslaw (Author) 22 ratings Edition: 1st See all formats and editions Hardcover 97.90 1 Used from 332.00 10 New from 97.90 Paperback 44.79 2 Used from 30.02 10 New from 43. Breslaw successfully addresses this issue in Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem. Breslaw draws on Native American, African, South American, and African-American sources, as well as the European and New England heritage, to illuminate the ways in which witchcraft in early America was an attempt to understand and control evil and misfortune in the New World. Sections from this work are reprinted in Witches of the Atlantic World, Elaine G. English Atlantic world between the third Anglo-Dutch War of.

Featuring primary documents as well as scholarly interpretations, Witches of the Atlantic World builds upon information regarding both Christian and non-Christian beliefs about possession and the demonic. This unique anthology is the first to provide a multicultural perspective on witchcraft from the 15th to 18th century.

Witches of the Atlantic World by Elaine G. Breslaw