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Author | : Montague Summers |
Publisher | : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books |
Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : |
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The author gives detailed evidence for the accent of Witchcraft set out in his previous volume The History of Witchcraft and Demonology. The epidemic that occurred is treated as it appeared in various countries and comprehensive chapters deal with Greece, Rome, England, Scotland, New England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
Author | : Montague |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2013-12-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780415847933 |
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First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Paul Boyer |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1976-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674282663 |
Download Salem Possessed Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Tormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh verdicts, nineteen bodies swinging on Gallows Hill. The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion, individual and organized, which had been growing for more than a generation before the witch trials. Salem Possessed explores the lives of the men and women who helped spin that web and who in the end found themselves entangled in it. From rich and varied sources—many previously neglected or unknown—Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum give us a picture of the events of 1692 more intricate and more fascinating than any other in the already massive literature on Salem. “Salem Possessed,” wrote Robin Briggs in The Times Literary Supplement, “reinterprets a world-famous episode so completely and convincingly that virtually all the previous treatments can be consigned to the historical lumber-room.” Not simply a dramatic and isolated event, the Salem outbreak has wider implications for our understanding of developments central to the American experience: the breakup of Puritanism, the pressures of land and population in New England towns, the problems besetting farmer and householder, the shifting role of the church, and the powerful impact of commercial capitalism.
Author | : Brian P. Levack |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 645 |
Release | : 2013-03-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191648833 |
Download The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The essays in this Handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries. During these years witches were thought to be evil people who used magical power to inflict physical harm or misfortune on their neighbours. Witches were also believed to have made pacts with the devil and sometimes to have worshipped him at nocturnal assemblies known as sabbaths. These beliefs provided the basis for defining witchcraft as a secular and ecclesiastical crime and prosecuting tens of thousands of women and men for this offence. The trials resulted in as many as fifty thousand executions. These essays study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingdoms and territories of Europe and in English, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies in the Americas. They also relate these prosecutions to the Catholic and Protestant reformations, the introduction of new forms of criminal procedure, medical and scientific thought, the process of state-building, profound social and economic change, early modern patterns of gender relations, and the wave of demonic possessions that occurred in Europe at the same time. The essays survey the current state of knowledge in the field, explore the academic controversies that have arisen regarding witch beliefs and witch trials, propose new ways of studying the subject, and identify areas for future research.
Author | : Adrian Pollock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Adam Ashforth |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2005-01-15 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780226029733 |
Download Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Large numbers of people in Soweto & other parts of South Africa live in fear of witchcraft, presenting complex & unique problems for the government. Adam Ashforth explores the challenge of occult violence & the spiritual insecurity that it engenders to democratic rule in South Africa.
Author | : Michael Wolfe |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822319139 |
Download Changing Identities in Early Modern France Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
After examining the interplay between competing ideologies and public institutions, from the monarchy to the Parlement of Paris to the aristocratic household, the volume explores the dynamics of deviance and dissent, particularly in regard to women's roles in religious reform movements and such sensationalized phenomena as the witch hunts and infanticide trials.
Author | : Montague Summers |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2007-07-30 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0486460118 |
Download The History of Witchcraft and Demonology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This classic of esoterica explores witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, damnation, Satanism, and every variety of magic. Written by the field's foremost scholar, it features colorful, little-known anecdotes about witches, devils, and their arts. It also provides numerous historical accounts of witch trials and surveys the role of witches in literature.
Author | : Marilynne K. Roach |
Publisher | : Taylor Trade Publications |
Total Pages | : 758 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781589791329 |
Download The Salem Witch Trials Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Salem Witch Trials is based on over twenty-five years of archival research--including the author's discovery of previously unknown documents--newly found cases and court records. From January 1692 to January 1697 this history unfolds a nearly day-by-day narrative of the crisis as the citizens of New England experienced it.
Author | : Doreen Valiente |
Publisher | : The Crowood Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2018-01-31 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0719826950 |
Download Witchcraft for Tomorrow Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Witchcraft for Tomorrow answers many frequently asked questions about witchcraft including: 'How can I find a witches' coven?' and 'How can I become a witch?' Doreen Valiente tells you what the old religion of witchcraft has to offer the new age of Aquarius; how the age-old Craft of the Wise can be practised in the modern world; how to initiate yourself as a witch and found your own coven. The author, who was the leading figure in the establishment of the modern Wiccan movement, includes a new Book of Shadows (the witches' handbook of rituals and instructions) based upon ancient magical tradition but geared to the age of the future. There are witch songs, spells, incantations and practical advice on how to run a coven and how to acquire your own collection of magical implements; as well as methods of divination and other witch lore. The author shows how the oral traditions of witchcraft throw light not only upon the origins of the present-day witch cult and the activities of the witch leader George Pickingill and his covens, but also upon the mystery of the founding of the famous magical order, the Golden Dawn. Also discussed is the relationship between the witchcraft of Britain and Europe and the magical belief of the Far East. Do both traditions hark back to the legendary city of Shamballah and to the shamanistic practices of Asia? And why do the secret circles of the witches resemble those of the Tantric sex-magic of India?