I am currently working on my third book, Witches, Vampires, and Things That Go Bump in the Night. This is a study of the social sources of beliefs in witches starting in Southern Turkey in 800 BCE and ending with a focus on the founding of Plymouth, the massacre of the Pequots, the persecution of the Quakers, the trial of Anne Hutchinson, the expulsion of Roger Williams, King Philips War, and the Salem witch trials in 17th century Massachusetts. My undergraduate time at Goddard College inst...