The Andros Tracts
Author : William Henry Whitmore
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Page : 294 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 1868
Category : Massachusetts
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Author : William Henry Whitmore
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Page : 294 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 1868
Category : Massachusetts
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Author : William Henry Whitmore
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Page : 296 pages
File Size : 12,32 MB
Release : 1868
Category : Massachusetts
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Page : 318 pages
File Size : 29,11 MB
Release : 1874
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Author : William Henry Whitmore
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Page : 296 pages
File Size : 12,22 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Massachusetts
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Page : 318 pages
File Size : 17,33 MB
Release : 1868
Category : Massachusetts
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Page : 390 pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release : 1869
Category : History
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Author : William Henry Whitmore
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Page : 292 pages
File Size : 27,68 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Massachusetts
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Page : pages
File Size : 34,62 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Massachusetts
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Page : 628 pages
File Size : 14,25 MB
Release : 1917
Category : American literature
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Author : Richard Godbeer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 13,91 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521466707
The Devil's Dominion examines the use of folk magic by ordinary men and women in early New England. The book describes in vivid detail the magical techniques used by settlers and the assumptions which underlaid them. Godbeer argues that layfolk were generally far less consistent in their beliefs and actions than their ministers would have liked; even church members sometimes turned to magic. The Devil's Dominion reveals that the relationship between magical and religious belief was complex and ambivalent: some members of the community rejected magic altogether, but others did not. Godbeer argues that the controversy surrounding astrological prediction in early New England paralleled clerical condemnation of magical practice, and that the different perspectives on witchcraft engendered by magical tradition and Puritan doctrine often caused confusion and disagreement when New Englanders sought legal punishment of witches.