This book presents twenty chapters by experts ... Cusack Source: Church History 'There can be no doubt that it is a welcome addition to magic and witchcraft studies since it offers a refreshing number ...

In different ways, most interpreters share the assumption that the Salem incident marks a critical turning point in New England history when old religious values were in question and new secular ones ...

The writer orsJhis book deprecates the “few freakish and ... 1929” is insufficient authority for a dictum about “white witchcraft”. No one doubts (p. 27) that Blackstone (“Commentaries ...

We’ll pick apart some witchcraft icons - like the pointy hat - and trace their origins. By the end, you will have an idea of how a complex and diverse history ... Her first book for general ...

Of course, few contemporary practices carry the centuries-old, misogyny-laden history of witchcraft. According to English Heritage, somewhere between 30,000 and 60,000 people were executed during ...

The result was that for people of that period, witchcraft and the Devil were all real problems to be feared. Title page of Heinrich Kramer's 1486 book, Hammer of Witches (or Malleus Maleficarum as ...