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- Eliza Buckminster Lee's Delusion or The Witch of New England (1839): (Re)Memory of the Salem Witch TrialsPublication . Gonçalves, Inês Tadeu
- In a flight of fancy from Pendle to Salem – the cultural memory of the early modern woman as witch on both sides of the AtlanticPublication . Gonçalves, Inês Tadeu FreitasThe depiction of the composite and cumulative image of the early English modern woman as witch in the Pendle witch trials of 1612 (Lancashire, UK) does not differ significantly from the one later portrayed in the Salem witch trials of 1692 (New England, USA). It suggests that the cultural memory of the woman as witch had remained in the fancy of the early English immigrants, soared out of the British Isles and crossed the Atlantic into the North-American Continent. Thus, the mnemonic processes involved and how they unfol ded diachronically and geographically between and beyond the early modern English and colonial New England cultures, attest to the transculturality of the cultural memory of the woman as witch. We intend, first, to illustrate this by discussing some of the defining aspects of the (trans)cultural immaterial religious sites of memory of the early modern woman as witch, in both Pendle Hill in Lancashire England and in Salem in Massachu setts, New England (US). And, second, we highlight one of the material sites of the cultural memory between the 1612 Pendle Hill trials and the 1692 Salem witch trials regarding the English accusatorial procedures, as far as the crime of witchcraft was concerned.