One biography -- "A desolate condition -- "Peace with no man" -- Witches: a collective portrait -- Two psychology -- "A diabolical distemper" -- "Let me do what I could" -- Accusers, victims, bystanders: the innerlife dimension -- Three sociology -- "The mind of our town" -- "Hard thoughts and jealousies" -- Communities: the social matrix of witchcraft -- "From generation to generation" -- "Hearts against hearts" -- Communities: witchcraft over time -- Appendix: list of known witchcraft cases in seventeenth-century New England.