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Baker, Emerson W., - The Devil of Great Island: witchcraft and conflict in early New England.

NY, Palgrave/Macmillan, (2007). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Great Island, NH, is plagued by mysterious events: strange, demonic noises, hundreds of stones fall on a local tavern and. appear at random inside its walls. Town residents blamed what they called Lithobolia or the "stone-throwing devil", and then witchcraft. Emerson shows how fear and superstition overtook one town and spawned copycat incidents elsewhere in New England prefiguring the horrors of Salem. Here's what really happened.
USD 22.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 | £UK 17.5 | JP¥ 3426] Book number BOOKS051546I

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