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American Bewitched : the Story of Witchcraft after Salem

This monograph (105,000 words) provides the first history of witchcraft in North America from the Salem trials of 1692 to the present, exploring cross-cultural influences between African, Native and European American communities from all corners of North America. It draws upon a wide-range of sources (including material culture, missionary reports, diaries, ethnographic and antiquarian material), with newspaper court reports concerning the assault, slander and murder of accused witches (over 150 cases) forming the basis of a systematic record-linkage methodology using censuses, ship records, birth, marriage and death records to build up a series of embedded micro-studies.