Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. 'Magical experiments': divining, healing and destroying in seventeenth-century New England 2. 'The serpent that lies in the grass unseen': clerical and lay opposition to magic 3. 'Entertaining Satan': sin, suffering, and countermagic 4. 'Sinful curiosity': astrological discourse in early New England 5. 'Insufficient grounds for conviction': witchcraft, the courts, and countermagic 6. 'Rape of a whole colony': the 1692 witch-hunt Epilogue Appendices.
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