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A forgotten witch hunt in New England

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Is There a Micro History of Witchcraft?

I'm interested by the approach of the book, because you could call it a micro history. What you're doing is t you're telling the story of one small community over a couple of years. And i was wondering if you think that that sheds light on any of these themes, or an perhaps causal factors,. in a way that you might not get from looking at a much broader history of witchcraft. In new england, for example, er, yes. Well, i do think that to really understandEr the way the mechanics ave witchcraft accusations, you need to be able to look deeply into one case as well as broadly across many cases. When you look across many cases, what

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