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Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; 1. 'Magical experiments':divining, healing and destroying in seventeenth-century New England; 2. 'Theserpent that lies in the grass unseen': clerical and lay opposition to magic;3. 'Entertaining Satan': sin, suffering, and countermagic; 4. 'Sinfulcuriosity': astrological discourse in early New England; 5. 'Insufficientgrounds for conviction': witchcraft, the courts, and countermagic; 6. 'Rapeof a whole colony': the 1692 witch-hunt; Epilogue; Appendices.