Abstract
IT MAY well be that we have expended more ink on the witchcraft episode in tiny Salem Village in 1692 than on any other single event in early American history. But scholars and students alike continue to be intrigued by the Salem witches, especially in this time of enthusiasm for the occult. As a result a number of new and imaginative interpretations have appeared in the last decade in which historians have borrowed theories from other disciplines. Anthropologists in particular have made considerable headway in their studies of belief in witches as a psycho-social factor among Africans, American Indians, and other twentieth-century societies, and their findings have been applied profitably to the study of witchcraft in earlier societies. Historians of early modern European witchcraft, for example, have made significant progress recently using this approach.' Similarly,
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