The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697)

CHAPTER I

Perkins' definition--Burr's "Servants of Satan"--The monkish idea--The ancientness of witchcraft--Its universality--Its regulation--What it was--Its oldest record--The Babylonian Stele--Its discovery--King Hammurabi's Code, 2250 B.C.--Its character and importance--Hebraic resemblances--Its witchcraft law--The test of guilt--The water test.