Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England

xiv, 543 pp. Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "John Putnam Demos present[s] an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreate[s] the world of New England during the witchcraft trials and [brings] to light fascinating information on the role of witchcraft in early American culture."