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Author(s):	Charles River Editors

Date:	2021	Format:	epub	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1092509070
Pages:	129	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
Uploader:	alex21s	Upload Date:	7/28/2021 5:45:07 PM

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*Includes pictures
*Includes contemporary accounts of trials
*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading
Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel. -  Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
When people hear the word witchcraft, certain images come to mind. American history buffs will immediately think of Salem, where hysteria in the 17th century led to notorious trials that continue to be the source of several historical studies, with scholars analyzing things from every direction. Was it a religious fervor? Was it a land grab? Was there fungus in the grain? Over 400 years later, there are still fundamental questions regarding the complete breakdown of moral order that pinned friend against friend and neighbor against neighbor.
As Salem proved, there has long been a natural curiosity about witchcraft. Some of the best-selling childrens books and adult novels have been about witchcraft, such as The Witch of Blackbird Pond. One of Roald Dahls most famous works was The Witches, and Harry Potter became a global phenomenon. As adults, fans of Anne Rice, Neil Gaiman, and Alice Hoffman will find books about witches among their reading list, and there are countless movies and television shows devoted to the topic.
All cultures and belief systems have ideas and definitions of what makes a witch, and this ultimately comes down to the human minds natural need to break things into opposites. For all good, there must be evil, and for those who started to settle North America in the 17th century and beyond, witchcraft became the perfect explanation for what they couldnt understand or control. Settling a new land  whether by choice or not  came with its own set of complications and ills. Life was hard in an unsettled area, especially when Europeans and Native Americans clashed in the New World, and when the European settlers started importing African slaves, that introduced new ideas about what constituted good and evil. As a result, while most studies of witchcraft in the United States tend to focus on Salem, that hardly does the subject matter justice, because understanding Native American and African concepts about witchcraft are just as important to American history as European ideas.
Witchcraft in the United States: The History of Witches, Practices, and Persecution in America examines how various cultures perceived witchcraft and the impact it had in the United States and the colonial period. Along with pictures and a bibliography, you will learn about the history of witchcraft in America like never before.

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