Wonders of the invisible world, 1600-1900
By: editor, Peter Benes ; associate editor, Jane Montague Benes
Contributors: Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
Series: Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife annual proceedings -- 1992.; Annual proceedings (Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife) -- 1992.
Publisher: Boston University
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and commentary / David D. Hall; title: Missionaries and magicians : the Jesuit encounter with Native American shamans on New England's colonial frontier / Robert Moss; title: Black arts and black magic : Yankee accommodations to African religion / William D. Piersen; title: African-American spiritual beliefs : an archaeological testimony from the slave quarter / M. Drake Patten; title: Chaste and unchaste covenants : witchcraft and sex in early modern culture / Richard Godbeer; title: Witchcraft in Montreal and Quebec during the French regime, 1600-1760 : an essay on the survival of French mentalitn colonial Canada / Hervagnon; title: The smiles and frowns of providence / Ross W. Beales Jr.; title: "Hill-diggers" and "hell-raisers" : treasure hunting and the supernatural in old and New England / W.R. Jones; title: "The true spiritual seed" : sectarian religion and the persistence of the occult in eighteenth-century New England / John L. Brooke; title: Fortunetellers, wise men, and magical healers in New England, 1644-1850 / Peter Benes.