To learn more about the Connecticut Witch Trials, we highly recommend each of the following books and articles. Support our project by purchasing books at our online book shop or acquire from your local library or bookstore:
- John Putnam Demos, Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
- Richard S. Ross III, Before Salem: Witch Hunting in the Connecticut River Valley, 1647-1663. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017.
- Katherine A. Hermes, Beth M. Caruso, Between God and Satan: Thomas Thornton, Witch-Hunting, and Religious Mission in the English Atlantic World, 1647–1693, Connecticut History Review 1 January 2022; 61 (2): 42–82. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/26395991.61.2.04
- Carol F. Karlsen, The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980.
- Richard Godbeer, Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
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