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The distinction between witchcraft and madness in colonial Connecticut

Department of History, U-2103, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA

This essay argues two points in regard to early New England: first, that witchcraft is not a significant aspect of the history of mental illness; and second, that seventeenth-century society had a cultural protocol for distinguishing one from the other. The examples discussed in detail are from Connecticut, but they are representative of colonial New England as a whole.

History of Psychiatry, Vol. 13, No. 52, 433-444 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/0957154X0201305205


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