The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697)

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John M. Taylor. The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697)

The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697)

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THE WITCHCRAFT. DELUSION IN COLONIAL. CONNECTICUT

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

HISTORICAL NOTE

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Index

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John M. Taylor

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Such was the cardinal principle which governed in the merciless attempts to suppress the epidemic in spreading from the continent to England and Scotland, and at last to the Puritan colonies in America, where the last chapter of its history was written.

There can be no better, no more comprehensive modern definition of the crime once a heresy, or of the popular conception of it, than the one set forth in the New England indictments, to wit: "interteining familiarity with Satan the enemy of mankind, and by his help doing works above the course of nature."

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