The introductory video "Spells and Cases: Colonial British American Witchcraft, 1467-1706" engages audiences by exploring ways to study witchcraft. This video is geared toward a broad audience who are looking for an introduction of the early witch in Colonial British America. The project, "Holy Conjuring: Religion and the Creation of the Colonial American Witch (1647-1706)" is geared toward those with a further interest in witchcraft in the colonies. Specifically, those with a scholarly interest in religion and gender and exploring their influence in the colonies will find this project to be of interest. "Spells and Cases" takes primary source documentation and groups the cases by the different ways to study them. I urge viewers to watch this video before exploring the rest of this website. This video was made with iMovie and narrated by the author using the following sources:
Images
Matthew Hopkins, Witch Finder General. From a broadside published by Hopkins before 1650.
Unknown - Wethersfield Historical Society, which is archived at here, with dates at end of photo captions Water-ordeal. Engraving. XVII.
Albrecht Dürer circa 1500: Witch riding Backwards on a Goat.
Witches by Hand Baldung. Woodcut, 1508. Reproduction source: R. Decker, Hexen, Frontispiz (2004).
Execution of alleged witches, 1587.
Examination of a Witch by T. H. Matteson, inspired by the Salem witch trials
Burning witches, with others held in stocks, 14th century.
Anne Hutchinson Preaching in her House in Boston. Unknown artist. Anne Hutchinson Preaching in Her House in Boston. From Harper’s Monthly, February 1901. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. LC-USZ62-53343.
Witchcraft at Salem Village. Engraving from “Pioneers in the settlement of America: from Florida in 1510 to California in 1849,” author William Crafts, 1876. Artist: unknown, public domain.
Documents
Mrs. Anne Hutchinson; a paper read before the New England historic genealogical society. Henry Leland Chapman, 1901, Boston, Unknown. https://archive.org/details/mrsannehutchinso00chap
Woman in Cuff like rope “Witch Hill,” or “The Salem Martyr” by New York artist Thomas Slatterwhite Noble, 1869.
2 witches over a cauldron. “The soul-killing witches that deform the body,” Shaks. – The image shows two witches stirring a steaming cauldron. It was published in a 1828 edition of Robert Calef’s “More Wonders of the Invisible World”.
Woodcut of exorcism with a demon emerging from her mouth Pierre Boaistuau, et al., Histoires prodigieuses et memorables, extraictes de plusieurs fameux autheurs, Grecs, & Latins, sacrez & prophanes (Paris, 1598), vol. 1.
Woodcut with woman and toads. Wood carving taken from Pip WIlson's "Witches of Warbois" Site http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/witches_of_warbois.html
Woodcut from a 1720 collection depicting both male and female witches flying on broomsticks. Photo: Wellcome Library, London.
Hexenhinrichtung: Jacob Truchsess von der Scheer zu Waldsee (?) liess am 10. Juni 1587 21 Hexen, am 11. Juni 9 und tags darauf nochmals 8 Hexen in "einem Brand" hinrichten. Abbildung aus der Wickiana (Sammlung des Johann Jakob Wick, Zentralbibliothek Zürich).
Albrecht Dürer circa 1500: Witch Riding Backwards On A Goat.
Francisco Goya's Los Caprichos: ¡Linda maestra! ("The Follies: Beautiful Teacher!") – witches heading to a Sabbath.
Witches by Hans Baldung. Woodcut, 1508.
Mary and Ralph Hall George Lincoln Burr’s Narratives of the Witchcraft cases 1648-1706 And https://history.hanover.edu/texts/nyhah.html#11.
Grace Sherwood George Lincoln Burr’s Narratives on witchcraft Cases And http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/The_Case_of_Grace_Sherwood_1706.
Kendall http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SALEM-WITCH/2001-11/1006736783.
Mercy Disbrough http://ctstatelibrary.org/RG000_samuel_wyllys_papers.html.
Music
Lost Time Lost Time Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Mesmerize Mesmerize Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Anguish Anguish Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Despair and Truimph Despair and Triumph Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Trio for Piano, Cello, and Clarinet Trio for Piano, Cello, and Clarinet Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/