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Witchcraft & the law in early modern Europe & USA: North America

Subjects: History - U.S., History - British, History - General, Law

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North America

Early American Imprints I, 1639-1800 ( Law and Crime)
Oxford handbook of witchcraft in early modern Europe and colonial America
Old-time blue laws : from the records of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, (including the witchcraft code)
Narratives of the witchcraft cases 1648-1706
Goody Garlick (1658)
Free resource. Overview of trial of Elizabeth Garlick of Easthampton New York by Smithsonian Institute
A brief history of the Salem Witch Trials (1692)
Free resource. From Smithsonian Institute.
Salem Witchcraft Trials (1692)
Free resource. One of the Famous Trials series by Douglas O. Linder (2013) University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law.

Storm of Witchcraft : the Salem trials and the American experience by Emerson W. Baker
Call Number: Part of Bodleian History Collection click on link to find location
ISBN: 019989034X
Publication Date: 2014

Salem in particular

There is a specific subject heading for this instance Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History -- 17th century

You may find that the Bodleian Vere Harmsworth Library has the only Oxford copy for this topic!

Bodleian Vere Harmsworth Library

The Salem witchcraft papers : verbatim transcripts of the legal documents of the Salem witchcraft outbreak of 1692 by Boyer, Paul S ; Nissenbaum, Stephen;
Call Number: Vere Harmsworth Library KFM 2478.8 .W5 S24 1977
ISBN: 0306707555
Publication Date: 1977

3 volumes
The Salem Witch Hunt: a brief history with documents by Richard Godbeer
Call Number: Vere Harmsworth Library BF 1576 .G63 2011
ISBN: 0312484550
Publication Date: 2011

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Subjects: History - U.S., History - British, History - General, Law

Tags: early modern history, European history, magic, medieval history, social history, women

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