For those fascinated by the Salem witch trials, this is compelling reading and the sourcebook. Acknowledgments xiii The Salem Witch-hunt Death Toll xv Introduction xvii Chronology xix Part I The Background 1(54) Witchcraft 3(22) Malleus Maleficarum (1486) 4(1) James Sprenger Heinrich Kramer A Discourse on the Damned Art of Witchcraft, So Far Forth as It Is Revealed in the Scriptures and Manifest by True Experience (1608) 5(2) William Perkins The Wonderful Discovery of the Witchcrafts of Margaret and Phillip Flower, Daughters of Joan Flower near Beaver Castle: Executed at Lincoln, March 11, 1618 (1619) 7(4) Increase Mather, An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences (1684) 11(6) Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions (1689) 17(8) Cotton Mather The Massachusetts Bay Colony 25(30) The Winthrop Papers, volume 2, Concluding section of The Model of Christian Charity (1931) 26(1) The Day of Doom, or A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgement, with a Short Discourse on Eternity (1929) 27(6) Kenneth B. Murdock Michael Wigglesworth Corderius Americanus, An essay Upon the Good Education of Children, in a Funeral Sermon Upon Mr. Ezekiel Cheever, Master of the Free School in Boston (1708) 33(1) Cotton Mather Records and files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, volume I, 1636--1656 (1911) 34(3) New England Judged (1667) 37(4) George Bishop Robert Roules's signed deposition to the General Court, July 17th 1677 41(3) A Narrative of the Captivity, Sufferings and Removes of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682) 44(2) The Salem Village Book of Record: 1672--1697 46(9) Part II The Witch-hunt 55(60) The Guilt of Innocent Blood 59(56) A Modest Enquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft (1702) 59(2) John Hale More Wonders of the Invisible World (1700) 61(1) Robert Calef A Brief and True Narrative of Witchcraft at Salem Village (1692) 61(5) Deodat Lawson More Wonders of the Invisible World (1700) 66(19) Robert Calef Letter (1692) 85(15) Thomas Brattle Governor Phipps's, Letters to the Home Government (1692--1693) 100(3) Move Wonders of the Invisible World 103(5) Robert Calef The Confession of Ann Putnam (1706) 108(7) Part III The Hunter and the Hunted 115(98) Samuel Parris (1653--1720) 117(60) Salem Witchcraft (1689) 118(1) Charles W. Upham Salem Village Book of Record 119(1) More Wonders of the Invisible World 119(1) Salem Village Book of Record 120(4) Samuel Parris's Sermon Notebook 124(3) Salem Village Church Book of Record 127(2) Samuel Parris's Sermon Notebook 129(3) Salem Village Church Book of Record 132(45) George Burroughs (1650--1692) 177(36) Letter from Bryan Pendleton to Governor Leverett of Massachusetts, August 13, 1676 177(1) Depositions to the County Court, in the case of Lieutenant John Putnam versus Mr. George Burroughs (1683) 178(2) Return of the marshall to the court 180(1) Letters from George Burroughs and eight others to the Governor's Council in Boston 181(3) Letter of Thomas Putnam to John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin 184(1) Complaint, letter, arrest warrant, examination, deposition, and indictments to the Court of Oyer and Terminer, regarding George Burroughs 185(19) Wonders of the Invisible World 204(9) Cotton Mather Part IV The Historians 213(94) Myth and Reality 215(92) The Life of His Excellency Sir William Phipps, Knt. (1697) 215(1) Cotton Mather The History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay (1765) 216(3) Thomas Hutchinson The History of the United States of America (1834) 219(8) George Bancroft Salem Witchcraft (1867) 227(2) Charles W. Upham Annals of Witchcraft in New England (1869) 229(1) Samuel G. Drake A Short History of the Salem Witchcraft Trials (1911) 229(1) M. V. B. Perley Witchcraft in Salem Village (1916) 230(1) Winfield S. Nevins The Devil in Massachusetts (1949) 231(2) Marion Starkey Witchcraft at Salem (1969) 233(18) Chadwick Hansen Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft (1974) 251(6) Paul Boyer Stephen Nissenbaum Ergotism: The Satan Loosed in Salem? (1976) 257(13) Linnda R. Caporael Some Unexplored Relationships of Essex County Witchcraft to the Indian Wars of 1675 and 1687 (1984) 270(16) James E. Kences The Devil Discovered (1991) 286(8) Enders A. Robinson A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials (1995) 294(5) Frances Hill Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies (1996) 299(8) Elaine G. Breslaw Part V Fiction 307(84) Pulp to Masterpieces 309(82) Rachel Dyer (1828) 309(5) John Neal Young Goodman Brown (1835) 314(11) Nathaniel Hawthorne The House of the Seven Gables (1851) 325(16) Nathaniel Hawthorne Witching Times (1857) 341(10) J. W. de Forest Calef in Boston (1849) 351(2) John Greenleaf Whittier Giles Corey of the Salem Farms (1868), act 1 353(11) H. W. Longfellow Giles Corey (1893), act 3 364(11) Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Mirror for Witches (1928) 375(3) Esther Forbes The Road to Endor (1940) 378(5) Esther Hammand ``Why I Wrote The Crucible,'' (1996) 383(8) Arthur Miller Notes 391(6) Bibliography 397(4) Index 401