Connecticut's witch trials were held in the mid-to-late 1600s. ... Bible references were used to assert the crime's legitimacy. It was completely written out of the books by 1750.

Nancy Evans was the subject of Ohio's only witch trial, which took place at the Bethel town square in the early 1800s. ... "The Bible shot several feet out of its sling," Hale wrote.

Witchcraft confessions, Shaw’s principal sources, were recorded by accusers, interrogators and judges. Frustrated by the paucity of humanizing details in these one-sided accounts, Shaw embarks ...