TY - BOOK AU - Moyer,Paul Benjamin TI - Detestable and wicked arts: New England and witchcraft in the early modern Atlantic world SN - 9781501751073 AV - BF1576 .D484 2020 PY - 2020/// CY - Ithaca, New York PB - Cornell University Press KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Introduction : The Devil in New England --; "Hanged for a Witch" : Witch-hunting in New England before 1670 --; "Being instigated by the Devil" : The Crime of Witchcraft --; "A forward, discontented frame of spirit" : The New England Witch --; "The more women, the more witches" : Gender and Witchcraft --; "There was some mischief in it" : The Social Context of Witchcraft --; "Very awful and amazing" : Witch Panics and the Bewitched --; "According to God's Law" : Witch-hunting as a Judicial Process --; Conclusion : The Case of Ann Burt and Witch-hunting in the English Atlantic; 2; b N2 - "While interpersonal, local, and regional contexts are critical to the analysis of witch-hunting in early New England, this book shows that a full understanding of the Puritan colonies' battle against black magic can only be achieved by placing it in a trans-Atlantic perspective"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2439197&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -