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Case of Witchcraft

Author : Robert Rapley
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773567119
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Case of Witchcraft written by Robert Rapley and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1998-08-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a Catholic priest, Grandier was an influential figure in the Loudun community and local government. A brilliant speaker, he was popular with his parishioners. But he had enemies, including Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XIII, who was trying to wrest political autonomy from local governors and centralize power in Paris. Grandier's support of the governor of Loudun meant that he was seen as an enemy of the crown. In addition, the debonair priest's romantic intrigues brought him into conflict with some of the town's most influential power brokers. When a nearby convent of Ursuline nuns began experiencing strange visions and hallucinations, Grandier's enemies seized the opportunity to orchestrate his downfall. These mass possessions, which spread through the convent despite attempts at exorcism, were regarded as witchcraft and Grandier was accused of having caused them. Condemned by Richelieu and the king, Grandier was tortured and burned at the stake for his alleged crimes. He maintained his innocence to the end. This tale of conspiracy, corruption, and mass hysteria provides a fascinating exploration of human behaviour and community dynamics.

A Trial of Witches

Author : Ivan Bunn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134696337
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book A Trial of Witches written by Ivan Bunn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1662, Amy Denny and Rose Cullender were accused of witchcraft, and, in one of the most important of such cases in England, stood trial and were hanged in Bury St Edmunds. A Trial of Witches is a complete account of this sensational trial and an analysis of the court procedures, and the larger social, cultural and political concerns of the period. In a critique of the official process, the book details how the erroneous conclusions of the trial were achieved. The authors consider the key participants in the case, including the judge and medical witness, their institutional importance, their part in the fate of the women and their future careers. Through detailed research of primary sources, the authors explore the important implications of this case for the understanding of hysteria, group mentality, social forces and the witchcraft phenomenon as a whole.

A Case of Witchcraft - a Novel of Sherlock Holmes

Author : Joe Revill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780920092
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book A Case of Witchcraft - a Novel of Sherlock Holmes written by Joe Revill and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of witchcraft in the Northern Isles, in which long-concealed secrets are revealed -- including some that concern the Great Detective himself! -- Cover, p. [4]

A Case of Witchcraft

Author : Robert Rapley
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773523128
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (231 download)

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Book Synopsis A Case of Witchcraft by : Robert Rapley

Download or read book A Case of Witchcraft written by Robert Rapley and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the story of passion and intrigue, conspiracy, corruption and mass hystria in Loudun, France in the 17th century. It tells of Urbain Grandier, a priest who was accused and found guilty of sorcery.

Cases of Male Witchcraft in Old and New England, 1592-1692

Author : E. J. Kent
Publisher : Brepols Pub
ISBN 13 : 9782503524740
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Cases of Male Witchcraft in Old and New England, 1592-1692 written by E. J. Kent and published by Brepols Pub. This book was released on 2013 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters in this book include: Nicholas Stockdale, Norfolk, 1593-1619; Edwin Haddesley, Essex, 1597-1607; John Lowes, Suffolk, 1600-45; Hugh Parsons, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1648-52; John Godfrey, Massachusetts, 1640-75; and George Burroughs, Salem Village, Massachusetts, 1692.

A Case of Witchcraft

Author : Joe Revill
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1780922914
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book A Case of Witchcraft written by Joe Revill and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-09-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of witchcraft in the Northern Isles, in which some long-concealed secrets are revealed - concerning not only the Dark Arts but also the Great Detective himself.

Ukrainian Witchcraft Trials

Author : Kateryna Dysa
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 615505312X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Ukrainian Witchcraft Trials written by Kateryna Dysa and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ukrainian Witchcraft Trials is an analysis of early modern witchcraft trials and legal procedures in Ukrainian lands, along with an examination of quantitative data drawn from the different trials. Kateryna Dysa first describes the ideological background of the tribunals based on works written by priests and theologians that reflect attitudes towards the devil and witches. The main focus of her work, however, is the process leading to witchcraft accusations. From the stories of participants of the trials she shows what led people to enunciate first suspicions then accusations of witchcraft. Finally, she presents a microhistory from one Volhynian village, comparing attitudes towards two "female crimes" in the Ukrainian courts. The study is based on archival research together with previously published witch trials transcripts. Dysa approaches the trials as indications of belief and practice, attempting to understand the actors involved rather than dismiss or condemn them. She takes care to situate Ukrainian witchcraft and its accompanying trials in a broader European context, with comparisons to some African cases as well.

Accused

Author : Willow Winsham
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473850045
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Accused written by Willow Winsham and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true stories of eleven notorious women, across five centuries, who were feared, victimized, and condemned for witchcraft in the British Isles. Beginning with the late Middle Ages—from Ireland to Hampshire—hundreds of women were accused of spellcasting, wicked seduction, murder, and consorting with the devil. Most were fated for the gallows or the stake. What did it mean for these prisoners to stand accused? What were they really guilty of? And by whom were they persecuted? Drawing on a wealth of primary sources including trial documents, church and census records, and the original sensationalist pamphlets describing the crimes, historian Willow Winsham finds the startling answers to these questions. In the process, she resurrects the lives, deaths, and mysteries of eleven women subjected to history’s most notable witch trials. From Irish “sorceress” Alice Kyteler who, in 1324 was the first accused witch on record, to Scottish psychic Helen Duncan who, in 1944, was the last woman imprisoned under Britain’s Witchcraft Act of 1735. Dames, servant girls, aggrieved neighbors, suspect widows, cat ladies, prostitutes, mothers, wives, daughters, and sisters. Accused brings all these victims, and the eras in which they lived and died, back to life in “an incredibly well researched . . . stunning and admirable piece of work, highly recommended” (Terry Tyler, author of the Project Renova series).

The Case That Foiled Fabian

Author : Simon Read
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750957220
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Case That Foiled Fabian written by Simon Read and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Wednesday 14 February 1945, the body of Charles Walton was discovered on the lower slopes of Meon Hill near the sleepy Warwickshire village of Lower Quinton, his torso pinned to the ground by a pitchfork. Myths and rumours soon swirled about the crime. Accounts claim Walton, a retired labourer and a lifelong resident of Lower Quinton, was believed by many to be a clairvoyant who could talk to birds and exercise control over animals. It has even been reported that many villagers attributed Walton's death to ritual witchcraft. But what is fact and what is fiction? The most famous police officer in Britain, Chief Inspector Robert Fabian, was promptly dispatched by Scotland Yard to solve this increasingly peculiar and foreboding mystery. 'Fabian of the Yard' was not a man prone to superstition and had dealt with some of the most notorious killers of his time – but there was something strange about the Walton murder. Did the clues point to ritual witchcraft as the modus operandi, or was the black magic angle merely a ruse? With the villagers unable – or unwilling – to shed light on the matter, Fabian faced, for the only time in his glittering career, the daunting prospect of failure. The Case That Foiled Fabian lays out for the first time what actually happened and distills the truth from the many myths about this case that are today mistaken for facts.

INVENTING WITCHCRAFT

Author : Aidan A Kelly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913660321
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book INVENTING WITCHCRAFT written by Aidan A Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr.Kelly has thoroughly investigated the history, rituals and documents behind modern Witchcraft which conservative Gardnerian Witches attempted to suppress. This edition has been extensively revised containing previously unavailable material.

In Defense of Witches

Author : Mona Chollet
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 125027222X
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book In Defense of Witches written by Mona Chollet and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a “brilliant, well-documented” celebration (Le Monde) by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch as a symbol of female rebellion and independence in the face of misogyny and persecution. Centuries after the infamous witch hunts that swept through Europe and America, witches continue to hold a unique fascination for many: as fairy tale villains, practitioners of pagan religion, as well as feminist icons. Witches are both the ultimate victim and the stubborn, elusive rebel. But who were the women who were accused and often killed for witchcraft? What types of women have centuries of terror censored, eliminated, and repressed? Celebrated feminist writer Mona Chollet explores three types of women who were accused of witchcraft and persecuted: the independent woman, since widows and celibates were particularly targeted; the childless woman, since the time of the hunts marked the end of tolerance for those who claimed to control their fertility; and the elderly woman, who has always been an object of at best, pity, and at worst, horror. Examining modern society, Chollet concludes that these women continue to be harrassed and oppressed. Rather than being a brief moment in history, the persecution of witches is an example of society’s seemingly eternal misogyny, while women today are direct descendants to those who were hunted down and killed for their thoughts and actions. With fiery prose and arguments that range from the scholarly to the cultural, In Defense of Witches seeks to unite the mythic image of the witch with modern women who live their lives on their own terms.

Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England

Author : Alan MacFarlane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134644663
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England written by Alan MacFarlane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-10 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a classic regional and comparative study of early modern witchcraft. The history of witchcraft continues to attract attention with its emotive and contentious debates. The methodology and conclusions of this book have impacted not only on witchcraft studies but the entire approach to social and cultural history with its quantitative and anthropological approach. The book provides an important case study on Essex as well as drawing comparisons with other regions of early modern England. The second edition of this classic work adds a new historiographical introduction, placing the book in context today.

Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706

Author : George Lincoln Burr
Publisher : New York : C. Scribner's sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 written by George Lincoln Burr and published by New York : C. Scribner's sons. This book was released on 1914 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culminating in the notorious Salem witch trials of 1692, a rising tide of witchcraft hysteria flooded the Puritan communities of 17th-century New England. This volume recaptures the voices from both sides of the controversy with 13 original narratives by judges, ministers, the accused, and others involved in the trials and persecution of the accused.

Witchcraft and Hysteria in Elizabethan London

Author : Michael MacDonald
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415017882
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Witchcraft and Hysteria in Elizabethan London written by Michael MacDonald and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reassesses and sets in its historical context Jorden's famous pamphlet. In his introduction, Michael MacDonald provides an analysis of the politics of credulity and scepticism in early modern England and Jorden's part in them.

A Case of Witchcraft

Author : Joe Revill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780920115
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book A Case of Witchcraft written by Joe Revill and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Babylonian Witchcraft Literature

Author : I. Abusch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781930675407
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book Babylonian Witchcraft Literature written by I. Abusch and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Trial of Witches

Author : Ivan Bunn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134696329
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book A Trial of Witches written by Ivan Bunn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-04 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1662, Amy Denny and Rose Cullender were accused of witchcraft, and, in one of the most important of such cases in England, stood trial and were hanged in Bury St Edmunds. A Trial of Witches is a complete account of this sensational trial and an analysis of the court procedures, and the larger social, cultural and political concerns of the period. In a critique of the official process, the book details how the erroneous conclusions of the trial were achieved. The authors consider the key participants in the case, including the judge and medical witness, their institutional importance, their part in the fate of the women and their future careers. Through detailed research of primary sources, the authors explore the important implications of this case for the understanding of hysteria, group mentality, social forces and the witchcraft phenomenon as a whole.