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American witches : a broomstick tour through four centuries / Susan Fair.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Skyhorse Publishing, [2016]Description: 303 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1510703802
  • 9781510703803
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Contents:
America's starter witches. A field guide to the American witch ; Witches on a ship ; First offenders: early witchcraft cases in the American colonies ; Native nightmares -- Witchcraft takes off. Predatory pigs, phantom puppies, and other sinister sidekicks ; Hell comes to Hartford: America's starter Salem ; An inconvenient witch: the story of Eunice Cole -- Slouching toward Salem. The Goodwins' very bad year: the weirdest case of witchcraft in American history? ; What's the Mather with witches? ; Salem by the numbers -- After Salem. Lifestyles of the witch and infamous: the black arts and bad neighborhoods of the witches of New York ; Christian Science and the last witch trial in American history (so far) ; Bad times in Booger Hole ; The York hex murder: a twentieth-century witch hunt gone wrong -- Witch awards. Outstanding moments in American witchcraft -- Epilogue. The reign of the Blair witch: how a made-up witch took on a life of her own and terrorized a town.
Summary: "The history of American witches is way weirder than you ever imagined. From bewitched pigs hell-bent on revenge to gruesome twentieth-century murders, American Witches reveals strange incidents of witchcraft that have long been swept under the rug as bizarre sidenotes to history. On a tour through history that’s both whimsical and startling, we’ll encounter seventeenth-century children flying around inside their New England home “like geese.” We’ll meet a father-son team of pious Puritans who embarked on a mission that involved undressing ladies and overseeing hangings. And on the eve of the Civil War, we’ll accompany a reporter as he dons a dress and goes searching for witches in New York City’s most dangerous neighborhoods. Entertainingly readable and rich in amazing details often left out of today’s texts, American Witches casts a flickering torchlight into the dark corners of American history."--Page [2] of cover.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 133.43 F163 Available Light water damage noted. 9/26/22 33111008562445
Total holds: 0

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The history of American witches is way weirder than you ever imagined. From bewitched pigs hell-bent on revenge to gruesome twentieth-century murders, American Witches reveals strange incidents of witchcraft that have long been swept under the rug as bizarre sidenotes to history.

On a tour through history that's both whimsical and startling, we'll encounter seventeenth-century children flying around inside their New England home "like geese." We'll meet a father-son team of pious Puritans who embarked on a mission that involved undressing ladies and overseeing hangings. And on the eve of the Civil War, we'll accompany a reporter as he dons a dress and goes searching for witches in New York City's most dangerous neighborhoods.

Entertainingly readable and rich in amazing details often left out of today's texts, American Witches casts a flickering torchlight into the dark corners of American history.

"The history of American witches is way weirder than you ever imagined. From bewitched pigs hell-bent on revenge to gruesome twentieth-century murders, American Witches reveals strange incidents of witchcraft that have long been swept under the rug as bizarre sidenotes to history. On a tour through history that’s both whimsical and startling, we’ll encounter seventeenth-century children flying around inside their New England home “like geese.” We’ll meet a father-son team of pious Puritans who embarked on a mission that involved undressing ladies and overseeing hangings. And on the eve of the Civil War, we’ll accompany a reporter as he dons a dress and goes searching for witches in New York City’s most dangerous neighborhoods. Entertainingly readable and rich in amazing details often left out of today’s texts, American Witches casts a flickering torchlight into the dark corners of American history."--Page [2] of cover.

America's starter witches. A field guide to the American witch ; Witches on a ship ; First offenders: early witchcraft cases in the American colonies ; Native nightmares -- Witchcraft takes off. Predatory pigs, phantom puppies, and other sinister sidekicks ; Hell comes to Hartford: America's starter Salem ; An inconvenient witch: the story of Eunice Cole -- Slouching toward Salem. The Goodwins' very bad year: the weirdest case of witchcraft in American history? ; What's the Mather with witches? ; Salem by the numbers -- After Salem. Lifestyles of the witch and infamous: the black arts and bad neighborhoods of the witches of New York ; Christian Science and the last witch trial in American history (so far) ; Bad times in Booger Hole ; The York hex murder: a twentieth-century witch hunt gone wrong -- Witch awards. Outstanding moments in American witchcraft -- Epilogue. The reign of the Blair witch: how a made-up witch took on a life of her own and terrorized a town.

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