Demos, John.

The enemy within : 2,000 years of witch-hunting in the Western world / John Demos. - New York : Viking, 2008. - 318 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-307) and indexes.

Martyrs of Lyons: a story from the beginning -- A witch-hunting panorama, 1500-1750 -- The Malleus maleficarum: a book and its travels -- Windsor, CT, 1654: a town under attack by Satan -- Witch-hunting in the American colonies, 1607-1692 -- Mary Parsons: a life under suspicion -- Rebecca Nurse: a "witch" and her trials -- The most famous witch-hunt of all, 1692-93 -- Rev. Cotton Mather: a minister and his demons -- Anti-Masonry: a politics of panic -- A saga of scares, 1700-2000 -- Fells Acres Day School: a question of abuse.

ISBN: 9780670019991

LCCN: 2008021427

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Witch hunting

LC Class. No.: BF1566 / .D46 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 133.4/309