(ePUB) The Devil in the Shape of a Woman — 9780393317596

The Devil in the Shape of a Woman
Witchcraft in Colonial New England
by Carol F. Karlsen

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• Language: english
• Release date: April 17, 1998
• ISBN: 9780393317596 (0393317595)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
• Author: Carol F. Karlsen
• Format: paperback, 370 pages
• Genres: history, witches, witchcraft, religion, feminism, historical, womens

About The Book

Confessing to « familiarity with the devils, » Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut officials in 1648. A wealthy Boston widow, Ann Hibbens was hanged in 1656 for casting spells on her neighbors. The case of Ann Cole, who was « taken with very strange Fits, » fueled an outbreak of witchcraft accusations in Hartford a generation before the notorious events at Salem.

More than three hundred years later, the question « Why? » still haunts us. Why were these and other women likely witches — vulnerable to accusations of witchcraft and possession? Carol F. Karlsen reveals the social construction of witchcraft in seventeenth-century New England and illuminates the larger contours of gender relations in that society.

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