The Salem Witch Trials

The Salem Witch Trials Criticism

• Introduction
• Overviews
  • The Shapes of the Devil
  • Prologue: What Happened in 1692
  • Visions of Evil: Popular Culture, Puritanism, and the Massachusetts Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
• Historical Background
  • Witchcraft and the Puritans
  • Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647–62
  • Rape of a Whole Colony: The 1692 Witch Hunt
• Judicial Background
  • The Penitance of the Jurors
  • The Judgment of the Witches
  • Witchcraft in Historical and Sociological Perspective
• The Search For Causes
  • Ergotism: The Satan Loosed in Salem?
  • Ergotism and the Salem Village Witch Trials
  • Mutations of the Supernatural: Witchcraft, Remarkable Providences, and the Power of Puritan Men
  • Andover Witchcraft and the Causes of the Salem Witchcraft Trials
  • The Devil Hath Been Raised: A Documentary History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Outbreak of March 1692
• The Role Of Women In The Trials
  • Underlying Themes in Witchcraft of Seventeenth-Century New England
  • The Salem Village Cataclysm: Origins and Impact of a Witch Hunt, 1689–92
  • Accusers, Victims, Bystanders: The Inner-life Dimension
• Further Reading