Author: Charles Wentworth Upham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Salem (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Author: George Henry Moore
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Category : Witchcraft
Languages : en
Pages : 31

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Author: Brian P. Levack
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 329

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Author: Samuel G. Drake
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Witchcraft
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Author: Justin Winsor
Publisher:
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Category : Witchcraft
Languages : en
Pages : 25

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Author: Stuart Clark
Publisher: Macmillan International Higher Education
ISBN: 033398529X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Different conceptions of the world and of reality have made witchcraft possible in some societies and impossible in others. How did the people of Early Modern Europe experience it and what was its place in their culture? The essays in this collection illustrate trends in witchcraft research and in cultural history in general. After decades in which the social analysis of witchcraft accusations has dominated the subject, this study looks at its significance and meaning as a cultural phenomenon - to the languages of witchcraft, rather than its causes.

Author: Scott Eaton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000079430
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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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 trials finally subsided in 1648, Stearne wrote his only publication, A confirmation and discovery of witchcraft, but it had a limited readership. Consequently, Stearne and his work fell into obscurity until the 1800s, and were greatly overshadowed by Hopkins and his text. This book is the first study which analyses Stearne’s publication and contextualises his ideas within early modern intellectual cultures of religion, demonology, gender, science, and print in order to better understand the witch-finder’s beliefs and motives. The book argues that Stearne was a key player in the trials, that he was not a mainstream ‘puritan’, and that his witch-finding availed from contemporary science. It traces A confirmation’s reception history from 1648 to modern day and argues that the lack of research focusing on Stearne has resulted in misrepresentations of the witch-finder in the historiography of witchcraft. This book redresses the imbalance and seeks to provide an alternative reading of the East Anglian witch-hunt and of England’s premier witch-hunter, John Stearne.

Author: Montague Summers
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113674018X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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This is a comprehensive guide to the practices of witchcraft from their inception to the present day. Summers argues that all witchcraft is essentially the same, regardless of geographical location. He examines the practices of the cult in great detail, and its historical progression, within the context of the 1736 Repeal Act of George II.

Author: Cotton Mather
Publisher: Marboro Books
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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FIRST HAND STORY OF SALEM WITCHCRAFT TRIALS.

Author: Brian P. Levack
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136537996
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.