Acknowledgments

The Salem Witch-hunt Death Toll

Introduction

Chronology

Part I The Background

Witchcraft

Malleus Maleficarum (1486)

James Sprenger

Heinrich Kramer

A Discourse on the Damned Art of Witchcraft, So Far Forth as It Is Revealed in the Scriptures and Manifest by True Experience (1608)

William Perkins

The Wonderful Discovery of the Witchcrafts of Margaret and Phillip Flower, Daughters of Joan Flower near Beaver Castle: Executed at Lincoln, March 11, 1618 (1619)

Increase Mather, An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences (1684)

Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions (1689)

Cotton Mather

The Massachusetts Bay Colony

The Winthrop Papers, volume 2, Concluding section of The Model of Christian Charity (1931)

The Day of Doom, or A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgement, with a Short Discourse on Eternity (1929)

Kenneth B. Murdock

Michael Wigglesworth

Corderius Americanus, An essay Upon the Good Education of Children, in a Funeral Sermon Upon Mr. Ezekiel Cheever, Master of the Free School in Boston (1708)

Cotton Mather

Records and files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, volume I, 1636--1656 (1911)

New England Judged (1667)

George Bishop

Robert Roules's signed deposition to the General Court, July 17th 1677

A Narrative of the Captivity, Sufferings and Removes of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682)

The Salem Village Book of Record: 1672--1697

Part II The Witch-hunt

The Guilt of Innocent Blood

A Modest Enquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft (1702)

John Hale

More Wonders of the Invisible World (1700)

Robert Calef

A Brief and True Narrative of Witchcraft at Salem Village (1692)

Deodat Lawson

More Wonders of the Invisible World (1700)

Robert Calef

Letter (1692)

Thomas Brattle

Governor Phipps's, Letters to the Home Government (1692--1693)

Move Wonders of the Invisible World

Robert Calef

The Confession of Ann Putnam (1706)

Part III The Hunter and the Hunted

Samuel Parris (1653--1720)

Salem Witchcraft (1689)

Charles W. Upham

Salem Village Book of Record

More Wonders of the Invisible World

Salem Village Book of Record

Samuel Parris's Sermon Notebook

Salem Village Church Book of Record

Samuel Parris's Sermon Notebook

Salem Village Church Book of Record

George Burroughs (1650--1692)

Letter from Bryan Pendleton to Governor Leverett of Massachusetts, August 13, 1676

Depositions to the County Court, in the case of Lieutenant John Putnam versus Mr. George Burroughs (1683)

Return of the marshall to the court

Letters from George Burroughs and eight others to the Governor's Council in Boston

Letter of Thomas Putnam to John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin

Complaint, letter, arrest warrant, examination, deposition, and indictments to the Court of Oyer and Terminer, regarding George Burroughs

Wonders of the Invisible World

Cotton Mather

Part IV The Historians

Myth and Reality

The Life of His Excellency Sir William Phipps, Knt. (1697)

Cotton Mather

The History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay (1765)

Thomas Hutchinson

The History of the United States of America (1834)

George Bancroft

Salem Witchcraft (1867)

Charles W. Upham

Annals of Witchcraft in New England (1869)

Samuel G. Drake

A Short History of the Salem Witchcraft Trials (1911)

M. V. B. Perley

Witchcraft in Salem Village (1916)

Winfield S. Nevins

The Devil in Massachusetts (1949)

Marion Starkey

Witchcraft at Salem (1969)

Chadwick Hansen

Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft (1974)

Paul Boyer

Stephen Nissenbaum

Ergotism: The Satan Loosed in Salem? (1976)

Linnda R. Caporael

Some Unexplored Relationships of Essex County Witchcraft to the Indian Wars of 1675 and 1687 (1984)

James E. Kences

The Devil Discovered (1991)

Enders A. Robinson

A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials (1995)

Frances Hill

Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies (1996)

Elaine G. Breslaw

Part V Fiction

Pulp to Masterpieces

Rachel Dyer (1828)

John Neal

Young Goodman Brown (1835)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The House of the Seven Gables (1851)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Witching Times (1857)

J. W. de Forest

Calef in Boston (1849)

John Greenleaf Whittier

Giles Corey of the Salem Farms (1868), act 1

H. W. Longfellow

Giles Corey (1893), act 3

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Mirror for Witches (1928)

Esther Forbes

The Road to Endor (1940)

Esther Hammand

``Why I Wrote The Crucible,'' (1996)

Arthur Miller

Notes

Bibliography

Index