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Beard, George M., Psychology of the Salem Witchcraft Excitement of 1692, and its Practical Application in Our Own Time (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1882)
Beatty, John D., Satan in Massachusetts: Genealogies of Salem's Witches (Fort Wayne, IN: Allen City Public Library, 1987)
Boas, Ralph and Louise Boas, Cotton Mather, Keeper of Puritan Conscience (New York and London: Harper & Bros, 1928)
Boyer, Paul, and Stephen Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974)
Breslaw, Elaine G., ‘The Salem Witch from Barbados: In Search of Tituba's Roots’, Essex Institute Historical Collections 128 (1992), 217-38
Breslaw, Elaine G., Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies (New York: New York University Press, 1996)
Brown, David, ‘The Case of Giles Cory’, Essex Institute Historical Collections 121 (1985), ??
Brown, David, ‘The Forfeitures at Salem, 1692’, William and Mary Quarterly Series 3 50 (1993), 85-111
Caporael, L. R., ‘Ergotism: The Satan Loosed in Salem?’, Science 192 (1976), 121-26
Clark, James William, ‘The Tradition of Salem Witchcraft in American Literature’ (PhD thesis, Duke University, 1970)
Cook, Albert B., ‘Damaging the Mathers: London Receives the News from Salem’, New England Quarterly 65 (1992), 302-08
Craker, Wendel D., ‘Spectral Evidence, Non-Spectral Acts of Witchcraft and Confession at Salem in 1692’, Historical Journal 40 (1997), 331-58
Crété, Liliane, Les Sorcières de Salem (Paris: Julliard, 1995)
Davis, Patricia Henry, ‘Siding with the Judges: A Psychohistorical Analysis of Cotton Mather's Role in the Salem Witch Trials’, (PhD thesis, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1992)
Demos, John, ‘John Godfrey and His Neighbors: Witchcraft and the Social Web in Colonial Massachusetts’, William and Mary Quarterly 23 (1976), 242-65
Ellard, Timothy D., ‘Salem Witchcraft, a Socio-Anthropological Study’ (Senior thesis, Harvard College, 1956)
Ferguson, Helen Myatt, ‘Nathaniel Hawthorne and Charles Wentworth Upham: The Witchcraft Connection’ (PhD thesis, University of Maryland, 1980)
Fox, Sanford, Science and Justice: The Massachusetts Witchcraft Trials (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1968)
Friday, Sue, ‘Witchcraft and Quaker Convincements: Lynn, Massachusetts, 1692’, Quaker History 84 (1995), 89-115
Fuess, Charles M., ‘Witches at Andover’, Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 70 (1953), 14
Gannon, Frederick Augustus, A Brief History of Salem Witchcraft, as Described by the Guide (Salem, MA: Salem Books, 1963)
Gemmill, William Nelson, The Salem Witch Trials: A Chapter of New England History (Chicago: A. C. McGlurg, 1924)
Gragg, Larry A., A Quest for Security: The Life of Samuel Parris, 1653-1720 (New York: Greenwood, 1990)
Gragg, Larry A., The Salem Witch Crisis (New York: Praeger, 1992)
Graystone, Philip, Elizabeth Jackson of Rowley: The East Yorkshire Girl who Emigrated to New England and was Executed as a Witch in Salem, Massachussetts, in 1692 (Hull: Lampada, 1993)
Hansen, Chadwick, ‘Andover Witchcraft and the Causes of the Salem Witchcraft Trials’, in Howard Kerr and Charles Crow (eds.), The Occult in America: New Historical Perspectives (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1983), 38-57
Hansen, Chadwick, Witchcraft at Salem (New York: Braziller, 1969)
Harley, David, ‘Explaining Salem: Calvinist Psychology and the Diagnosis of Possession’, American Historical Review 101 (1996), 307-30
Herget, Winfried, Der Salemer Hexenverfolgungen: Perspektiven, Kontexte, Repräsentationen (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1994)
Heyrman, Christine L., ‘Specters of Subversion, Societies of Friends: Dissent and the Devil in Provincial Essex County, Massachusetts’, in David M. Hall, John M. Murrin, and Thad W. Tate (eds.), Saints and Revolutionaries: Essays on Early American History (New York: Norton, 1984), 38-74
Hill, Francis, A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1996)
Hoffer, Peter Charles, The Devil's Disciples: Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996)
Hoffer, Peter Charles, The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1997)
Hunter, Ian A., ‘The Shape of the Devil: the Salem Witch Trials of 1692’, Law Society Gazette 27 (1993), 59-?.
Jackson, Shirley, The Witchcraft of Salem Village (New York: Random House, 1956)
Keeney, Steven H., ‘Witchcraft in Colonial Connecticut and Massachusetts: An Annotated Bibliography’, Bulletin of Bibliography and Magazine Notes 33 (1976), 61-72
Kences, James, ‘Some Unexplored Relationships of Essex County Witchcraft to the Indian Wars of 1675 and 1689’, Essex Institute Historical Collections 120 (1984), 179-212
Konig, David, Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts: Essex County, 1629-1692 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979)
LeBeau, Bryan F., The Story of the Salem Witch Trials: ‘We Walked in Clouds and Could not See Our Way’ (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1997)
Levin, David, ‘Did the Mathers Disagree About the Salem Witch Trials?’, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 95 (1985), 12-37
Levin, David, ‘Salem Witchcraft in Recent Fiction and Drama’, New England Quarterly 28 (1955), 537-46
Lovejoy, David S., ‘Between Hell and Plum Island: Samuel Sewall and the Legacy of the Witches, 1692-1697’, New England Quarterly 70 (1997), 355-67
Mappen, Marc, Witches and Historians: Interpretations of Salem (2nd ed., Malabar, FL: Krieger, 1996)
Matossian, Mary, ‘Ergot and the Salem Witchcraft Trials’, in Mary Matossian (ed.), Poisons of the Past (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989), ??
McLeod, Carol, ‘Travesties of Justice: the Salem Witch Trials’, Canadian Lawyer 16 (1991-2), 11-?
McMillen, Persis W., Currents of Malice: Mary Towne Esty and her Family in Salem Witchcraft (Portsmouth, NH: P. E. Randall, 1990)
Middlekauff, Robert, The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971)
Moore, George H., ‘Notes on the Bibliography of Witchcraft in Massachusetts’, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society N.S. 5 (1888), 249-72
Moore, George H., ‘Notes on the History of Witchcraft in Massachusetts’, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society N.S. 2 (1882), 162-81
Nevins, Winfield S., Witchcraft in Salem Village in 1692, Together with Some Account of Other Witchcraft Prosecutions in New England and Elsewhere (Salem, MA: North Shore Publishing Co., 1892)
Owen, Dennis E., ‘Spectral Evidence: The Cosmology of Salem Village in 1692’, in Mary Douglas (ed.), Essays in the Sociology of Perception (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul/Russell Sage Foundation, 1982), 275-301
Robinson, Enders A., The Devil Discovered: Salem Witchcraft, 1692 (New York: Hippocrene, 1991)
Rosenthal, Bernard, Salem Story: Reading the Witch Trial of 1692 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)
Sargent, Mark L., ‘The Witches of Salem, the Angel of Hadley, and the Friends of Philadelphia’, American Studies 34 (1993), 105-20
Starkey, Marion, The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials (New York: Knopf, 1949)
Swan, Marshall, ‘The Bedevilment of Cape Ann, 1692’, Essex Institute Historical Collections 117 (1981), 153-77
Upham, Charles, Cotton Mather and Witchcraft: Two Notices of Mr. Upham, His Reply (Boston, MA: n.p., 1870)
Upham, Charles, Salem Witchcraft: With an Account of Salem Village, and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects, 2 vols. (Boston, MA: Wiggin and Lunt, 1867)
Weisman, Richard, Witchcraft, Magic, and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts, 1984)
Werking, Richard, ‘‘Reformation Is Our Only Preservation’: Cotton Mather and Salem Witchcraft’, William and Mary Quarterly 29 (1972), 281-90
Wilson, Lori Lee, The Salem Witch Trials: How History is Invented (New York: Lerner, 1996)
Yool, George Malcolm, The 1692 Witch Hunt: A Layman’s Guide to the Salem Witchcraft Trials (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1992)
Young, Martha M., ‘The Salem Witch Trials 300 Years Later: How Far has the American Legal System Come? How Much Further does it need to go?’, Tulane Law Review 64 (1989), 235-58