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Rosenthal, Bernard ed., Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

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Note- I used all the 1692-93 court records to construct the network graphs as well as later documents referring to past events which included about 850 of the 980 records in the book.

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Baker, Emerson W., A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience, (Oxford University Press, 2015).

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Boyer, Paul, and Stephen Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974).

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Boyer, Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum eds., Salem-Village Witchcraft: A Documentary Record of Local Conflict in Colonial New England, (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1972).

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Boyer, Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum, "Salem Possessed' in Retrospect," The William and Mary Quartery, 65.3 (July 2008), 503-534.

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Demos, John, "What Goes Around Comes Around," The William and Mary Quarterly, 65.3 (July 2008), 479-482.

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Hill, Francis ed., The Salem Witch Trials Reader, (Da Capo Press, 2000).

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Hoffer, Peter Charles, The Salem Witch Trials: A Legal History, (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas: 1997).

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Kamensky, Jane, "Salem Obsessed; Or, 'Plus Ca Change,': An Introduction," The William and Mary Quarterly, 65.3 (July 2008), 391-400.

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Karlsen, Carol F., The Devil in the Shape of a Woman, (New York: Vintage Books, 1989).

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Karlsen, Carol F., "Salem Revisited," The William and Mary Quarterly, 65.3 (July 2008), 489-494.

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Reis, Elizabeth, "Confess or Deny? What's a 'Witch' to Do?", OAH Magazine of History, 17.4 (July 2003), 11-13.

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Rosenthal, Bernard, "Tituba," OAH Magazine of History, 17.4 (July 2003), 48-50.

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Robinson, Enders A., The Devil Discovered: Salem Witchcraft 1692, (New York: Hippocrene Books, 1991).

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Starkey, Marion L., The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials, (Anchor Books, 1949).

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Upham, Charles W., Salem Witchcraft, (Dover Publications Inc., 2000).

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Wasserman, Stanley and Katherine Faust, Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).

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Weisman, Richard, Witchcraft, Magic, and Religion in 17th-Century Massachusetts, (Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1984).

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A special thanks to the following people for advice and support throughout this project:

Diane Cline, C. Thomas Long, David Silverman, Richard Stott, William E. Burns, Denver Brunsman, Katrin Schultheiss, Andrea Marshall, and the GW History Department for providing a grant. 

A huge thank you and acknowledgement to Emerson W. Baker for advice and donation.

Thanks also to Jay Pawlyk, Randy Reinbold, Peter Mathison, Dana Smith, and the rest of the St. John's Prep faculty where this research interest started, and a special thanks to Charlie Newhall who taught the class that started it all in 2011.

Also thanks to a large number of friends and family, especially Vincent Landers, Andrew Ramos, Lauren Lopaty, Ben Hess, Mikayla Kurland, Bridget Hughes, Vincenzo Cardi, Kevin Hamilton, and the rest of SJP Fencing and GW Fencing.

Finally thanks to the other guides at the Witch House and Elizabeth Peterson.