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Author : John Roy Musick
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The witch of Salem, the age of superstition written by John Roy Musick and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Roy Musick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The witch of Salem, the age of superstition written by John Roy Musick and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael David Bailey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742533875
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (338 download)
Download or read book Magic and Superstition in Europe written by Michael David Bailey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only comprehensive, single-volume survey of magic available, this compelling book traces the history of magic and superstition in Europe from antiquity to the present. Focusing mainly on the medieval and early modern era, Michael Bailey also explores the ancient Near East, classical Greece and Rome, and the spread of magical systems_particularly modern witchcraft or Wicca_from Europe to the United States. He explains how magic was understood, constructed, and frequently condemned and how magical beliefs and practices have changed over time yet also remain vital even today.
Author : H. B. Stowe
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 : 9780368317866
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The Salem Witchcraft written by H. B. Stowe and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: However strange it seems, it is quite worthy of observation, that the actors in that tragedy, the 'afflicted children, ' and other witnesses, in their various statements and operations, embraced about the whole circle of popular superstition. How those young country girls, some of them mere children, most of them wholly illiterate, could have become familiar with such fancies, to such an extent, is truly surprising. They acted out, and brought to bear with tremendous effect, almost all that can be found in the literature of that day, and the period preceding it, relating to such subjects. Images and visions which had been portrayed in tales of romance, and given interest to the pages of poetry, will be made by them, as we shall see, to throng the woods, flit through the air, and hover over the heads of a terrified court. The ghosts of murdered wives and children will play their parts with a vividness of representation and artistic skill of expression that have hardly been surpassed in scenic representations on the stage. In the Salem-witchcraft proceedings, the superstition of the middle ages was embodied in real action
Author : Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781517080303
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Salem Witchcraft written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-28 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: However strange it seems, it is quite worthy of observation, that the actors in that tragedy, the 'afflicted children, ' and other witnesses, in their various statements and operations, embraced about the whole circle of popular superstition. How those young country girls, some of them mere children, most of them wholly illiterate, could have become familiar with such fancies, to such an extent, is truly surprising. They acted out, and brought to bear with tremendous effect, almost all that can be found in the literature of that day, and the period preceding it, relating to such subjects. Images and visions which had been portrayed in tales of romance, and given interest to the pages of poetry, will be made by them, as we shall see, to throng the woods, flit through the air, and hover over the heads of a terrified court. The ghosts of murdered wives and children will play their parts with a vividness of representation and artistic skill of expression that have hardly been surpassed in scenic representations on the stage. In the Salem-witchcraft proceedings, the superstition of the middle ages was embodied in real action
Author : Jeffrey Burton Russell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501720317
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft in the Middle Ages written by Jeffrey Burton Russell and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the known theories and incidents of witchcraft in Western Europe from the fifth to the fifteenth century are brilliantly set forth in this engaging and comprehensive history. Building on a foundation of newly discovered primary sources and recent secondary interpretations, Jeffrey Burton Russell first establishes the facts and then explains the phenomenon of witchcraft in terms of its social and religious environment, particularly in relation to medieval heresies. Russell treats European witchcraft as a product of Christianity, grounded in heresy more than in the magic and sorcery that have existed in other societies. Skillfully blending narration with analysis, he shows how social and religious changes nourished the spread of witchcraft until large portions of medieval Europe were in its grip, "from the most illiterate peasant to the most skilled philosopher or scientist." A significant chapter in the history of ideas and their repression is illuminated by this book. Our enduring fascination with the occult gives the author's affirmation that witchcraft arises at times and in areas afflicted with social tensions a special quality of immediacy.
Author : Stacy Schiff
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316200611
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The Witches written by Stacy Schiff and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when women played the central role in American history. In curious ways, the trials would shape the future republic. As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, THE WITCHES is Stacy Schiff's account of this fantastical story-the first great American mystery unveiled fully for the first time by one of our most acclaimed historians.
Author : John R. Musick
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 : 9780368110030
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Witch of Salem written by John R. Musick and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Witch of Salem" is designed to cover twenty years in the history of the United States, or from the year 1680 to 1700, including all the principal features of this period. Charles Stevens of Salem, with Cora Waters, the daughter of an indented slave, whose father was captured at the time of the overthrow of the Duke of Monmouth, are the principal characters. Samuel Parris, the chief actor in the Salem tragedy, is a serious study, and has been painted, after a careful research, according to the conception formed of him. No greater villain ever lived in any age. He had scarce a redeeming feature. His religion was hypocrisy, superstition, revenge and bigotry. His ambition led him to deeds of atrocity unsurpassed. Having drawn the information on which this story is founded from what seem the most reliable sources, and woven the story in a way which it is hoped will be pleasing and instructive, we send this volume forth to speak for itself.
Author : Jules Michelet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806500591
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Satanism and Witchcraft written by Jules Michelet and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gretchen A. Adams
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226005429
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Specter of Salem written by Gretchen A. Adams and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Specter of Salem, Gretchen A. Adams reveals the many ways that the Salem witch trials loomed over the American collective memory from the Revolution to the Civil War and beyond. Schoolbooks in the 1790s, for example, evoked the episode to demonstrate the new nation’s progress from a disorderly and brutal past to a rational present, while critics of new religious movements in the 1830s cast them as a return to Salem-era fanaticism, and during the Civil War, southerners evoked witch burning to criticize Union tactics. Shedding new light on the many, varied American invocations of Salem, Adams ultimately illuminates the function of collective memories in the life of a nation. “Imaginative and thoughtful. . . . Thought-provoking, informative, and convincingly presented, The Specter of Salem is an often spellbinding mix of politics, cultural history, and public historiography.”— New England Quarterly “This well-researched book, forgoing the usual heft of scholarly studies, is not another interpretation of the Salem trials, but an important major work within the scholarly literature on the witch-hunt, linking the hysteria of the period to the evolving history of the American nation. A required acquisition for academic libraries.”—Choice, Outstanding Academic Title 2009
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Missionary Review of the World written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 804 pages
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Download or read book The Homiletic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shirley Jackson
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0307779882
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Witchcraft of Salem Village written by Shirley Jackson and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of magic, superstition, and witchcraft were strictly forbidden in the little town of Salem Village. But a group of young girls ignored those rules, spellbound by the tales told by a woman named Tituba. When questioned about their activities, the terrified girls set off a whirlwind of controversy as they accused townsperson after townsperson of being witches. Author Shirley Jackson examines in careful detail this horrifying true story of accusations, trials, and executions that shook a community to its foundations.
Author : John Fiske
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Witchcraft in Salem Village written by John Fiske and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jules Michelet
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Sorceress : a Study in Middle Age Superstition written by Jules Michelet and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Callow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350196142
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Last Witches of England written by John Callow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fascinating and vivid." New Statesman "Thoroughly researched." The Spectator "Intriguing." BBC History Magazine "Vividly told." BBC History Revealed "A timely warning against persecution." Morning Star "Astute and thoughtful." History Today "An important work." All About History "Well-researched." The Tablet On the morning of Thursday 29 June 1682, a magpie came rasping, rapping and tapping at the window of a prosperous Devon merchant. Frightened by its appearance, his servants and members of his family had, within a matter of hours, convinced themselves that the bird was an emissary of the devil sent by witches to destroy the fabric of their lives. As the result of these allegations, three women of Bideford came to be forever defined as witches. A Secretary of State brushed aside their case and condemned them to the gallows; to hang as the last group of women to be executed in England for the crime. Yet, the hatred of their neighbours endured. For Bideford, it was said, was a place of witches. Though 'pretty much worn away' the belief in witchcraft still lingered on for more than a century after their deaths. In turn, ignored, reviled, and extinguished but never more than half-forgotten, it seems that the memory of these three women - and of their deeds and sufferings, both real and imagined – was transformed from canker to regret, and from regret into celebration in our own age. Indeed, their example was cited during the final Parliamentary debates, in 1951, that saw the last of the witchcraft acts repealed, and their names were chanted, as both inspiration and incantation, by the women beyond the wire at Greenham Common. In this book, John Callow explores this remarkable reversal of fate, and the remarkable tale of the Bideford Witches.
Author : John R. Musick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 375243659X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book The Witch of Salem written by John R. Musick and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Witch of Salem by John R. Musick
