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Williams, Abigail
Williams, Roger
Winthrop, John Jr.
Winthrop, John Sr.
Wirt, William
Wright, Joan
 
Young, Alice
Young, John
General Index
adolescence
Africans (slaves), and witchcraft
Alien and Sedition Acts
American Defense Society
American Federation of Labor
American Protective Association
American Revolution
Andover (MA), as center of witch-hunt
anti-Catholicism
anti-German attitudes
anti-Masonry
Antinomian controversy
Army-McCarthy hearings
 
Bakersfield (CA), “sex-rings” investigation
Bavarian Illuminati
Bible
Black Death
 
cannibalism
Canon Episcopi
Catharism
Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act
child-battering
child sex-abuse “crisis,”
child-rearing
Christianity, early history of
Cold War
Communist Party
convent-burning
counter-magic
Counter Reformation
Court of Oyer and Terminer
Crusades
Crucible, The
cunning men (and women)
 
declension
defamation (and slander), cases
demonic possession
Dominion of New England
“End Time” (and Judgment Day)
Enlightenment
Espionage Act
explanations for Salem witch-hunt
actual witchcraft
class conflict
coming of capitalism
deception
divine retribution
epidemic disease
ergot poisoning
fear of Indians
hysteria
mental illness
patriarchal privilege
political repression
provincialism
shifting cultural boundaries
village factionalism
vulnerability of children
 
fears of conspiracy
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Fells Acres Day School prosecution
“fits” (caused by witchcraft)
fortune-telling
Freemasonry, history of
French Revolution
Glorious Revolution
Granger movement
Greco-Roman religions and cults
Great Depression
Great Red Scare
 
Halfway covenant
Haymarket Riot
heresy
Hollywood Ten
Holy Roman Empire
House Un-American Activities Committee
Hundred Years War
hysteria
 
image magic
infanticide
Indians
and skin color
and witchcraft
and warfare
Ingolstadt, University of
International Workers of the World
Islam
 
Jews and Judaism
 
King Philip's War
King William's War
Knights Templar
Korean War
legal system, and witch-hunts
Little Ice Age
loyalists
loyalty oaths
Lyons (France), early history of
magic-
Malden (MA), history of
maleficium
Malleus Maleficarum
Maryland, witchcraft cases in
McCarthyism
McMartin preschool prosecution
“mechanical philosophy,”
menopause
misogyny
missing children
Molly Maguires
Mormonism
 
National Republican Party
National Security League
New Deal
New England, witchcraft cases in
New York, witchcraft cases in
 
“paranoid thinking,”
Paris Commune
Parliamentary Act of
Pennsylvania, witchcraft cases in
Progressive movement
projection
Protestant Reformation
Puritanism
 
recovered memory
Republican Party
Roman Empire
 
Sacco-Vanzetti trial
Salem (MA), early history of
Salem (MA), witch-hunt of
Satan (a.k.a. the Devil)
and his “book,”
and conspiracy
and sex
imagery of
Seattle general strike
Sedition Act of
Senate Internal Security Committee
shamanism
smallpox
Smith Act
socialism
spectral evidence
Tomkins Square Riot
“touch test,”
 
Vagrancy Act of
“voodoo death,”
Virginia, witchcraft cases in
 
Wabanaki (Indians)
Waldensianism
Wicca
Winnipeg (Canada), general strike
witch bottles
witch-cake
witch “familiars,”
witch-marks
witch trials
and class difference
and community life
and emotion
and “functionalism,”
and prevailing world-view
and religion
clergy's role in
“craze” period
execution scenes
numbers of
“panic” cases
physicians' role in
“refusal-guilt syndrome,”
smaller cases
socio-economic context
spatial patterning
witch-finders' role in
witchcraft, as a belief system
witchcraft, skepticism about
witchcraft belief, decline of
witches
ages of
and fertility
and sex
as healers
attacks on
character of
economic position of
family life of
fantasies about
gender of
identification of
“pact” with the Devil
sabbat
victims of
witch-hunting, as metaphor
World War
World War

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