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The Witch Hunts: A History of ...Tens of thousands of people were persecuted and put to death as witches betwee... Tens of thousands of people were persecuted and put to death as witches between 1400 and 1700 - the great age of witch hunts. Why did the witch hunts arise, flourish and decline during this period? What purpose did the persecutions serve? Who was moreDetails
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Demonology and Witch-Hunting i...Demonology - the intellectual study of demons and their powers - contributed t... Demonology - the intellectual study of demons and their powers - contributed to the prosecution of thousands of witches. But how exactly did intellectual ideas relate to prosecutions? Recent scholarship has shown that some of the demonologists' co moreDetails
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Witches (RLE Witchcraft): Inve...Clues to T.C. Lethbridge's books lie in their subtitles. Witches: Investigatin... Clues to T.C. Lethbridge's books lie in their subtitles. Witches: Investigating an Ancient Religion is no exception. In his study of the old pagan gods of Britain, Lethbridge believed that witch cults had their roots in prehistory and eve moreDetails
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Enchanted Feminism: The Reclai...This is the first major study of the most famous Reclaiming Witch community, f... This is the first major study of the most famous Reclaiming Witch community, founded in 1979 in San Francisco, written by an author who herself participated in a coven for ten years. Jone Salomonsen describes and examines the communal and ritual p moreDetails
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The Witch Figure: Folklore ess...Katharine Briggs enjoys an unchallenged reputation in the world of folklore st... Katharine Briggs enjoys an unchallenged reputation in the world of folklore studies. The theme of this volume, the witch figure as a malevolent intermediary in folk belief, was chosen to reflect that aspect of Briggs's scholarship exemplified in h moreDetails
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Marks of an Absolute Witch: Ev...This work explores the social foundation of evidence law in a specific histori... This work explores the social foundation of evidence law in a specific historical social and cultural context - the debate concerning the proof of the crime of witchcraft in early modern England. In this period the question of how to prove the cri moreDetails
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Women Writers and the Occult i...Examining the intersection of occult spirituality, text, and gender, this book... Examining the intersection of occult spirituality, text, and gender, this book provides a compelling analysis of the occult revival in literature from the 1880s through the course of the twentieth century. Bestselling novels such as The Da Vin moreDetails
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Feminist Spirituality under Ca...Industrial modernity's worship of rationality had a profound effect on women's... Industrial modernity's worship of rationality had a profound effect on women's ways of knowing, marginalizing them along with other alternate forms of knowledge such as the imagination and the unconscious. Feminist Spirituality under Capitalis moreDetails
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Embracing the Witch and the Go...Embracing the Witch and the Goddess is a detailed survey of present-day femini... Embracing the Witch and the Goddess is a detailed survey of present-day feminist witches in New Zealand. It examines the attraction of witchcraft for its practitioners, and explores witches' rituals, views and beliefs about how magic work moreDetails
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Joan of Navarre: Infanta, Duch...This book is the first full-length biography of Joan of Navarre, a fascinating... This book is the first full-length biography of Joan of Navarre, a fascinating royal woman who became duchess of Brittany and queen consort of England through her two marriages in 1386 and 1403 respectively.Joan was enmeshed in the turbule moreDetails
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Damnable Practises: Witches, D...Broadside ballads-folio-sized publications containing verse, a tune indication... Broadside ballads-folio-sized publications containing verse, a tune indication, and woodcut imagery-related cautionary tales, current events, and simplified myth and history to a wide range of social classes across seventeenth century England. Bal moreDetails
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Witchcraft Myths in American C...A fascinating examination of how Americans think about and write about witches... A fascinating examination of how Americans think about and write about witches, from the 'real' witches tried and sometimes executed in early New England to modern re-imaginings of witches as pagan priestesses, comic-strip heroines and feminist ic moreDetails
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John Stearne's Confirmation an...Between 1645-7, John Stearne led the most significant outbreak of witch-huntin... Between 1645-7, John Stearne led the most significant outbreak of witch-hunting in England. As accusations of witchcraft spread across East Anglia, Stearne and Matthew Hopkins were enlisted by villagers to identify and eradicate witches. After the moreDetails
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Witchcraft and Gender in Early...How could a woman be three times accused of witchcraft and go on running a suc... How could a woman be three times accused of witchcraft and go on running a successful farmstead? Why would men use a frying pan for cattle magic? Why did witches keep talking about the children? What kind of a relation did Finnish witches have wit moreDetails
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Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts ...Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Enlightenment argues for the centrality o... Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Enlightenment argues for the centrality of magical practices and ideas throughout the long eighteenth century.Although the hunt for witches in Europe declined precipitously after 1650, and the moreDetails
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Witchcraft in Early Modern Eng...Witchcraft in Early Modern England provides a fascinating introduction to the ... Witchcraft in Early Modern England provides a fascinating introduction to the history of witches and witchcraft in England from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.Witchcraft was a crime punishable by death in England during t moreDetails
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The Appearance of WitchcraftShortlisted for the 2008 Katharine Briggs Award.For centuries the witch has be... Shortlisted for the 2008 Katharine Briggs Award.For centuries the witch has been a powerful figure in the European imagination; but the creation of this figure has been hidden from our view. Charles Zika's groundb moreDetails
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Reading WitchcraftIn this original study of witchcraft, Gibson explores the stories told by and ... In this original study of witchcraft, Gibson explores the stories told by and about witches and their 'victims' through trial records, early news books, pamphlets and fascinating personal accounts. The author discusses the issues surrounding the i moreDetails
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The Nature of Magic: An Anthro...This book examines how and why practitioners of nature religion - Western witc... This book examines how and why practitioners of nature religion - Western witches, druids, shamans - seek to relate spiritually with nature through 'magical consciousness'. 'Magic' and 'consciousness' are concepts that are often fraught with preju moreDetails
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Witchcraft and Sorcery in East...Containing ten essays by anthropologists on the beliefs and practices associat... Containing ten essays by anthropologists on the beliefs and practices associated with witches and sorcerers in Eastern Africa, the chapters in this book are all based on field research and new information which is studied within its wider social c moreDetails
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Medea, Magic, and Modernity in...Bringing together the previously disparate fields of historical witchcraft, re... Bringing together the previously disparate fields of historical witchcraft, reception history, poetics, and psychoanalysis, this innovative study shows how the glamour of the historical witch, a spell that she cast, was set on a course, over a spa moreDetails
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The Night Battles (RLE Witchcr...Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives, the book recounts the story o... Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives, the book recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centred on the benandanti. These men and women regarded themselves as professional anti-witches, who (in dream-like states) apparently fought moreDetails
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Exploring the Horror of Supern...Detailing the adventures of a supernatural clan of vampires, witches, and asso... Detailing the adventures of a supernatural clan of vampires, witches, and assorted monstrosities, Ray Bradbury's Elliott family stories are a unique component of his extensive literary output. Written between 1946 and 1994, Bradbury eventually qui moreDetails
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Greek Magic: Ancient, Medieval...Magic has always been a widespread phenomenon in Greek Society, starting from ... Magic has always been a widespread phenomenon in Greek Society, starting from Homer's Circe (the first 'evil witch' in western history) and extending to the pervasive belief in the 'evil eye' in the twenty-first century Greece. Indeed, magic is pr moreDetails
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The Science of Demons: Early M...Witches, ghosts, fairies. Premodern Europe was filled with strange creatures, ... Witches, ghosts, fairies. Premodern Europe was filled with strange creatures, with the devil lurking behind them all. But were his powers real? Did his powers have limits? Or were tales of the demonic all one grand illusion? Physicians, lawyers, a moreDetails
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