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Book Synopsis Anna Goeldin - The Last Witch by : Eveline Hasler
Download or read book Anna Goeldin - The Last Witch written by Eveline Hasler and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last witchcraft trial in German-speaking countries was held in 1782 in Eveline Hasler's home canton of Glarus in Switzerland. A servant woman, Anna Goeldin, was accused of having bewitched a child of the physician household in which she worked, making it crippled and spit pins. The accused confessed under torture, was sentenced by the city council and executed. Sources show that the trial provoked great controversy in Europe even at the time. The courts in Glarus were ridiculed and criticized by more enlightened cities in Switzerland and Germany. In her novel with its beautiful simple language, Hasler tells Anna Goeldin's story and trial. With the means of fiction, Hasler attempts to explain how a witchcraft trial could come to take place in the heart of Europe during the heyday of the Enlightenment. The novel was first published in 1982 and also draws parallels to women's fight for equal rights two hundred years later. This novel is a bestseller in German-speaking countries, has been translated into several languages, and made into a feature film by Gertrud Pinkus. The translation by Mary Bryant has won an Arts and Humanities Initiative Award at the University of Iowa. Eveline Hasler (born in 1933) was trained as a teacher of History and turned to writing children's books, fiction, and historical fiction. She is the recipient of many awards, among them the Switzerland Award for Juvenile Fiction (1978), Honors by the City of Zurich (1988), Schubart Award (1989), Droste Award (1994), and Justinus Kerner Award (1999).
Book Synopsis The Child Witches of Lucerne and Buchau by :
Download or read book The Child Witches of Lucerne and Buchau written by and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A translation of Eveline Hasler’s novel, Die Vogelmacherin— literally “The Bird-Maker Girl”—this book tells the story of three children who were prosecuted for witchcraft in seventeenth-century Europe. Challenging strict boundaries between fiction and history, Hasler’s novel draws on trial records and other archival sources that document the legal cases against these children. While the original work offers a detailed portrait of political and religious violence, Maierhofer goes a step further by providing essential context for the novel. Her wide-ranging introduction and meticulous annotations illuminate the relevance and wider significance of Hasler’s writing. For the first time in English, this book brings Hasler’s traumatic history of witchcraft trials to life, exposing the violence of a culture shaped by fear, authoritarian power, and ideals of conformity.
Download or read book The Guardian written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The German Historical Novel since the Eighteenth Century by : Daniela Richter
Download or read book The German Historical Novel since the Eighteenth Century written by Daniela Richter and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical novel is a genre which has enjoyed widespread popularity in Germany from its beginnings in the eighteenth century. At that time, increased literacy among the middle and lower classes had resulted in a greater demand for reading material aimed at a general audience. Because of its educational and entertaining characteristics, the historical novel quickly became a dominant genre among other forms of popular literature. To this day, it constitutes a major sector on the German book market and is, together with popular TV series, documentaries, and museum exhibits, an important part of German Geschichtskultur. This collection of essays looks at aesthetic and thematic continuities, as well as changes in the development of the genre in Germany from the late eighteenth century to the present, and gives insights into the novels’ political and socio-cultural implications. The articles investigate historical novels from writers such as Benedikte Naubert, the ‘mother’ of German historical fiction, nineteenth-century popular writers Georg Ebers and Hermann Sudermann, modern writers such as Alfred Döblin, Hermann Hesse, and Hermann Broch, post-Wende works such as those by Thomas Brussig, Christa Wolf, and Ingo Schulze, and contemporary historical fiction by Sabine Weigand, Eveline Hasler and Petra Durst-Benning.
Book Synopsis The Untold History of Healing by : Wolf D. Storl
Download or read book The Untold History of Healing written by Wolf D. Storl and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Untold History of Healing takes the reader on an exciting, expansive journey of the history of medicine from the Stone Age to modern times, explaining that Western medicine has its true origins in the healing lore of Paleolithic hunters and gatherers, herding nomads, and the early sedentary farmers rather than in the academic tradition of doctors and pharmacists. This absorbing history of medicine takes the reader on a sweeping journey from the Stone Age to modern times, showing that Western medicine has its origins not only in the academic tradition of doctors and pharmacists, but in the healing lore of Paleolithic hunters and gatherers, herding nomads, and the early sedentary farmers. Anthropologist and ethnobotanist Wolf D. Storl vividly describes the many ways that ancient peoples have used the plants in their immediate environment, along with handed-down knowledge and traditions, to treat the variety of ailments they encountered in daily life.
Download or read book Anna Witch written by Madeleine Edmondson and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1982 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little witch girl makes a discovery about life without mother after a loss of temper clashes with a loss of patience.
Book Synopsis Anna Göldin, letzte Hexe : Roman by : Eveline Hasler
Download or read book Anna Göldin, letzte Hexe : Roman written by Eveline Hasler and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Witch written by Fran Rathmann and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-16 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Sarah’s story. Sarah is the daughter of a Salem witch who was burned at the stake. While she practices witchcraft she wants to give it up and live an ordinary life with her husband and two children, a daughter and a son. But with three curses hanging over her head and somebody out to kill her lover, will they survive to live the life of their dreams.
Book Synopsis A Hint of Witchcraft by : Anna Gilbert
Download or read book A Hint of Witchcraft written by Anna Gilbert and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange things have been brewing in the village of Ashlaw in 1923: the once-prosperous drapers' shop has gone bankrupt and three separate families' lives have each, it seems, been hexed. In a bigger town such news might happen every day, but in tiny, remote Ashlaw, even one of these curses can set the whole village off-kilter. So what could be responsible for the stir? Margot, a local, precocious schoolgirl, has been trying to figure this out, especially since hers was one of the three ill-fated families. She comes to a strange conclusion--each of these curses somehow involves one Linden Grey, the most intriguing woman Margot has ever met. She determines to understand, once and for all, Linden's identity and her preternatural, even deadly, powers. But in her search, is Margot willing to hand over her childish innocence? With eerie suspense and clever turns of plot, Anna Gilbert bewitches believers and non-believers alike in A Hint of Witchcraft, a chronicle of a village's encounter with the other-worldly.
Download or read book Anna written by David Trebus and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After losing her lover during a dangerous job in Japan, Anna is left questioning everything she once knew and believed in. As her life spirals out of control, her mentor continually throws her into evermore dangerous situations fighting supernatural entities. Consumed by grief, Anna desperately tries to find answers and confront her fears.Anna: The Witch and The Fox is the first installment of a wider universe told from different character perspectives. It has been written as a short story collection but forms a complete narrative.
Download or read book Time of the Witches written by Anna Myers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Salem Witch trials are brought to life through one reluctant accuser's search for truth
Download or read book The Hollywood Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Witch written by Rona Munro and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rona Munro's 'The Last Witch' tells the story of the last woman to be executed for witchcraft in the British Isles. It is based on the historical account of Janet Horne, the alleged witch of Dornoch in the Scottish Highlands, who was executed in 1727.
Book Synopsis Eradicating the Devil's Minions by : Gary K. Waite
Download or read book Eradicating the Devil's Minions written by Gary K. Waite and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " As a religious sect, the Anabaptists were seen to practice unusual rituals and follow an eccentric set of beliefs. One story, for instance, purports that an Anabaptist prophet, claiming to have visited heaven, persuaded his followers to run naked through the streets of Amsterdam. Eradicating the Devil's Minions investigates these beliefs in the context of Reformation Europe, a time in which persecution, religious intolerance, and witch-hunting were rampant. Focusing primarily on the Habsburg-controlled regions of Europe, Gary K. Waite argues that the persecution of Anabaptists did not go hand-in-hand with the outbreak of witch-hunts in the mid-sixteenth century. Rather, as distrust of Anabaptists predated the first major witch panic of 156263, Waite suggests that the virulent propaganda against Anabaptist heretics helped convince governments of the existence of a diabolical threat. Although Anabaptists rejected religious magic, they were consistently demonized by Catholic and Lutheran polemicists. Eradicating the Devil's Minions is an investigation into the roots of religious intolerance in Reformation Europe, and a unique examination of mass hysteria and social extremism. "
Book Synopsis Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction by : Malcolm Gaskill
Download or read book Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction written by Malcolm Gaskill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history and origins of witchcraft, from pre-history to the present day, considering why it still features so heavily in our culture
Book Synopsis Reproductive Rights Issues in Popular Media by : Waltraud Maierhofer
Download or read book Reproductive Rights Issues in Popular Media written by Waltraud Maierhofer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body." Almost a century after Margaret Sanger wrote these words, women's reproductive rights are still hotly debated in the press and among policymakers, while film, television and other media address issues of birth control and abortion to global audiences. This collection of new essays brings fresh perspectives to the study of family planning, contraception and abortion with a focus on their representation in popular media. Topics include dramas of adoption and abortion, telling the story of the pill, Sanger's depiction in entertainment media, and a controversy about demographic developments stirred by Carl Djerassi, also known as "the father of the pill."
Download or read book On Witchcraft written by Cotton Mather and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating account of witches and devils in colonial America, the renowned and influential minister of Boston's Old North Church attempts to justify his role in the Salem witch trials. A true believer in the devil's battle to get converts in Salem and other Massachusetts towns during the late seventeenth century, Mather also believed the fantastic accusations of those who accused their neighbors of witchcraft. The theologian's book, first published in 1692, provides readers with guidelines for discovering witches, explanations for how good Christians are tempted by the devil to become witches, and methods of resisting such temptation. The great Boston minister also provides testimony from a number of similar trials, describes instances of witchcraft in other countries, and explains the devil's predicament in dealing with Christianity. Essential reading for students of the Salem witch trials, On Witchcraft will intrigue anyone interested in early American social and cultural history.
