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The Devil's Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England
Richard Godbeer
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| #891824 in Books | Cambridge University Press | 1994-01-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.41 x.59 x6.69l,.89 | File type: PDF | 268 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Mrs. Deborah L. Mitchel|Thanks!|4 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| interesting|By A. mancebo|When I read the first few pages I was not happy. All the authors' ideas appeared to be taken from a variety of texts found listed on the bottom of the page. A Summery? Not very inventive. But,as I had alrea||"Godbeer shows us that popular belief in magic underlay most accusations of witchcraft, even in the Salem epidemic, and he also shows that popular belief did not necessarily ascribe the efficacy of magic, and by consequence of witchcraft, to the devil." The
Early New Englanders used magical techniques to divine the future, to heal the sick, to protect against harm and to inflict harm. Protestant ministers of the time claimed that religious faith and magical practice were incompatible, and yet, as Richard Godbeer shows, there were significant affinities between the two that enabled layfolk to switch from one to the other without any immediate sense of wrongdoing. Godbeer argues that the different perspectives on witchcraft ...
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