In the first edition of the Bancroft Prize-winning Entertaining Satan, John Putnam Demos presented an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England during the witchcraft trials and brought to light fascinating information on the role of witchcraft in early American culture. Now Demos has revisited his original work and updated it to illustrate why these early Americans' strange views on witchcraft still matter to us today. He provides a new Preface that puts forth a broader overview of witchcraft and looks at its place around the world--from ancient times right up to the present.
- ISBN10 0195033787
- ISBN13 9780195033786
- Publish Date 17 November 1983 (first published 28 October 1982)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 April 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press, USA
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 560
- Language English