Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New by John Putnam Demos

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Within the first variation of the Bancroft Prize-winning enjoyable devil, John Putnam Demos provided a completely new viewpoint on American witchcraft. by way of investigating the surviving old records of over 100 genuine witchcraft circumstances, he vividly recreated the area of recent England through the witchcraft trials and taken to mild interesting info at the position of witchcraft in early American tradition. Now Demos has revisited his unique paintings and up to date it to demonstrate why those early american citizens' unusual perspectives on witchcraft nonetheless topic to us at the present time. He offers a brand new preface that places forth a broader evaluate of witchcraft and appears at its position round the world--from precedent days correct as much as the current.

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Because . . "52 The court affirmed paternity to Lawrence and ordered him to "pay 20 pence per week in corn toward the keeping of the child";53 thenceforth the boy was known as Jacob Clinton. By the succeeding autumn Lawrence's ardor had found a new object. "54 Shortly thereafter Rachel petitioned for divorce. "55 Meanwhile Rachel was pursuing extramarital interests of her own. ) reported finding the two of them together in a compromising situation: Ford "in bed, [with] his upper clothes off," and Rachel standing nearby.

There is reason to think that the mental condition of widow Haffield had deteriorated gradually over a period of several years. In May 1666 the local magistrates, meeting at Ipswich, made temporary provision to deal with the matter. "15 Several months later the magistrates extended and clarified these measures. Declaring the widow officially "non compos mentis," they gave Thomas White sole charge of her affairs, "to be as a guardian to her, . . and to receive and recover her estate, . . "1* White wasted no time in acting on his new responsibilities.

Carefully pursuing a two-sided approach—suits in the county court, and petitions to the General Court—the Cobbetts and Ilsleys sought to break the will as written. 37 Apparently their stepmother, as the official "executrix," had simply declined to probate the will for all these years, and had now effectively excluded them from her own line of inheritance. This seemed all the more unjust, because—so the plaintiffs contended—a large part of the estate had come into the family from their own mother.

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