Wonders of the invisible world 1600-1900
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Introduction and commentary / David D. Hall -- Missionaries and magicians : the Jesuit encounter with Native American shamans on New England's colonial frontier / Robert Moss -- Black arts and black magic : Yankee accommodations to African religion / William D. Piersen -- African-American spiritual beliefs : an archaeological testimony from the slave quarter / M. Drake Patten -- Chaste and unchaste covenants : witchcraft and sex in early modern culture / Richard Godbeer -- Witchcraft in Montreal and Quebec during the French regime, 1600-1760 : an essay on the survival of French mentalité in colonial Canada / Hervé Gagnon -- The smiles and frowns of providence / Ross W. Beales Jr. -- "Hill-diggers" and "hell-raisers" : treasure hunting and the supernatural in old and New England / W.R. Jones -- "The true spiritual seed" : sectarian religion and the persistence of the occult in eighteenth-century New England / John L. Brooke -- Fortunetellers, wise men, and magical healers in New England, 1644-1850 / Peter Benes.
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