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

Author:Carol F. Karlsen [Karlsen, Carol F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: history, United States, Colonial Period (1600-1775), women, BODY; MIND & SPIRIT, witchcraft, Social Science, Women's Studies
ISBN: 9780393317596
Google: zqW43ygq_EYC
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1998-04-17T00:21:17.442538+00:00

TABLE 14. Non-possessed Accusers by Sex and Marital Status, New England, 1620–1725

Because we cannot easily distinguish non-possessed accusers from the rest of the New England population, we can understand the role they played in witchcraft rituals only by understanding their larger social setting. We must ask then what it was about New England’s developing social arrangements that led so many New England settlers to accuse their female neighbors of witchcraft.4 Though women regularly expressed witchcraft fears, we will consider first the social sources of witch fear in men.

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