Boyer, Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum. Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1974.

----. Salem-Village Witchcraft: A Documentary Record of Local Conflict in Colonial New England. Boston: Northeastern UP, 1972.

Burr, George Lincoln. Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases 1648-1706.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914.

Demos, John Putnam. Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England.  New York: Oxford UP, 1982.

Hoffer, Peter Charles. The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History. Lawrence: U of Kansas P, 1997.

Konig, David. Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts: Essex County 1629-1720.  Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1979.

Kramer, Heinrich and James Sprenger. The Malleus Maleficarum (1489). Trans. by Montague Summers.  New York: Dover, 1971.

Miller, Perry.  The New England Mind: From Colony to Province. Cambridge:  Harvard UP, 1953.

Miller, Perry. The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1939, 1954, 1982.

Phillips, James Duncan. Salem in the Seventeen Century. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1933.

Weisman, Richard. Witchcraft, Magic, and Religion in 17th-Century Massachusetts. Amherst: U Mass P, 1984.

The Salem Witchcraft Papers - Verbatim Transcripts of the Legal Documents of the Salem Witch Trials.

17th Century Colonial New England  - with a special emphasis on the Salem Witchcraft Trials.

Danvers Archival Center - Website dedicated to introducing the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 (Salem Village).

Salem Witch Trials website - by Doug Linder;  I do not necessarily agree with his interpretation of the events but there are many original documents and images that are worth looking at; see Chronology of Events.

The Salem Evening News "Documents shed new light on witchcraft trials"  - by Betsy Taylor, news staff, Thursday, November 4, 1999.

Welcome To Salem - Website of Salem, Massachusetts (Salem Town).

Peabody Essex Museum - Located in Salem, Massachusetts.
 

Thomas, Keith. Religion and the Decline of Magic. New York: Oxford UP, 1997.

Scarry, Elaine.  The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World.  New York: Oxford UP, 1985.

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher.  Good Wives: Image and Reality of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750.  New York: Random House, 1980.

Kozameh, Alicia.  Steps Under the Water.  Trans. by David E. Davis. Berkley: U of California P, 1996.

• "The most curious of all the facts in that welter we call Salem witchcraft is this: if you expunge from the record those documents that arise directly out of the affair, and those which treat it historically...the intellectual history of New England up to 1720 can be written as though no such thing ever happened" (Miller, Colony, pg. 191).

• Do you think the tourist trade in Salem, Massachusetts that promotes the 1692 event as the trial of witches, as opposed to the slaughter of innocents, is a continuing travesty of justice? Why or why not?
• Do you believe in the existence of true witches? Why or why not? What is a true witch?
• Compare and contrast the attitudes towards witchcraft in the seventeenth century with modern day witchcraft.  Are there similarities in belief?  What are the differences in attitude from the practitioner and opponent points of view?  Could the practice of modern witchcraft lead to the same conclusion? What form could it take?
• Were the Puritan ministers fools or men of their time?
• Do you see any parallel to the modern obsession with the occult and the events of the late seventeenth century?
• Why do neighbors kill each other?