Halloween reading!
What Law Library would be complete without contemporary accounts of famous trials? Certainly not the D’Angelo Law Library. And, in the spirit of the season, here are some not-to-be-missed titles:
What happened in Salem? Documents pertaining to the seventeenth-century witchcraft trials. Young Goodman Brown [by] Nathaniel Hawthorne [and] A mirror for witches [by] Esther Forbes.
Author / Creator: Levin, David, 1924-, Edition: 2d ed.
Imprint: New York, Harcourt, Brace [1960]
URL for this record: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/859705
D’Angelo Law, Bookstacks, Call No. BF1575.L40 1960
Salem-village witchcraft; a documentary record of local conflict in colonial New England. Edited by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum.
Author / Creator: Boyer, Paul S. , 416 p. illus. 23 cm.
Subjects:Witchcraft — Massachusetts — Salem. Trials (Witchcraft) — Massachusetts — Salem. Salem (Mass.) — History — Sources.
URL for this record: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2640607
D’Angelo South Annex, Request from Storage, Call No. KA653.B75
Records of Salem witchcraft, copied from the original documents. [Compiled by W. Elliot Woodward]
New York : Da Capo Press, 1969. Description: 2 v. in 1. 24 cm.
URL for this record: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2654401
D’Angelo South Annex, Request from Storage, Call No. KA653.Z9S24
Or from the lips of the inestimable Reverend Cotton Mather himself:
The wonders of the invisible world being an account of the tryals of several vvitches, lately excuted [!] in New England : and of several remarkable curiosities therein occurring : together with, I. Observations upon the nature, the number, and the operations of the devils. II. A short narrative of a late outrage committed by a knot of witches in Swede-land, very much resembling, and so far explaining, that under which New-England has laboured. III. Some councels directing a due improvement of the terrible things lately done by the unusual and amazing range of evil-spirits in New-England. IV. A brief discourse upon those temptations which are the more ordinary devices of Satan / by Cotton Mather ; published by the special command of his excellency the govenour [!] of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England.
Author / Creator: Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
Imprint: Printed first, at Bostun [!] in New-England ; and reprinted at London : for John Dunton, 1693.
Description:2 p.l., [1]-98 (i.e. 106) p., 1 l. (sig. 2 l., not signed, A-K4, L-R2) ; 21 cm.
Subject: Witchcraft — New England.
URL for this record: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8662476
Available via:Full text online
And one more compilation of contemporary accounts:
More wonders of the invisible world, or, The wonders of the invisible world displayed in five parts : to which is added a postscript relating to a book entitled, The life of Sir William Phips / collected by Robert Calef.
Author / Creator: Calef, Robert, 1648-1719.
Imprint: [Buffalo, NY] : William S. Hein & Co., [2009]
Series: HeinOnline world trials, World trials library.
Subjects: Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. Pietas in patriam. , Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. Wonders of the invisible world. , Parris, Samuel, 1653-1720. , Phips, William, Sir, 1651-1695. , Rule, Margaret. , Witchcraft — New England — Cases.
URL for this record: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8523883
Available via:Full text online
Happy Halloween!
