A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book
Signing the Diabolical Pact: Aspects of Supernatural Written Communication in Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt, 1692-1693
Authors: Matti Peikola
Editors: Simon Rosenberg, Sandra Simon
Publication year: 2014
Book title : Material Moments in Book Cultures: Essays in Honour of Gabriele Müller-Oberhäuser
First page : 35
Last page: 50
ISBN: 978-3-631-64794-3
eISBN: 978-3-653-03623-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-03623-7
Documents from the Salem witch-trials testify to a richly imagined written culture related to making a pact with the Devil. This paper discusses the materiality of the pact as described by suspected witches ad magistrates, suggesting some influences that may have shaped their accounts.
