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Author : Jules Michelet
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806516868
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (168 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft, Sorcery and Superstition written by Jules Michelet and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michelet's classic study of medieval hexes and spell-casting.
Author : Howard Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Superstitions of Witchcraft written by Howard Williams and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 300 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 : Howard Williams (M.A.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Superstitions of Witchcraft written by Howard Williams (M.A.) and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Howard Williams
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3732659933
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (326 download)
Download or read book The Superstitions of Witchcraft written by Howard Williams and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Superstitions of Witchcraft by Howard Williams
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 : 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 : Frederick Valletta
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351872591
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft, Magic and Superstition in England, 1640–70 written by Frederick Valletta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the relationship between élite and popular beliefs in witchcraft, magic and superstition in England, analyzing such beliefs against the background of political, religious and social upheaval characteristic of the Civil War, Interregnum and Restoration periods. Belief in witchcraft received new impulses because of the general ferment of religious ideas and the tendency of participants in the Civil Wars to resort to imagery drawn from beliefs about the devil and witches; or to use portents to argue for the wrongs of their opponents. Throughout the work, the author stresses that deeply held superstitions were fundamental to belief in witches, the devil, ghosts, apparitions and supernatural healing. Despite the fact that popular superstitions were often condemned, it was recognized that their propaganda value was too useful to ignore. A host of pamphlets and treatises were published during this period which unashamedly incorporated such beliefs. Valletta here explores the manner in which political and religious authorities somewhat cynically used demonic imagery and language to discredit their opponents and to manipulate popular opinion.
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 : Jules Michelet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Sorceress written by Jules Michelet and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick Victor Alfred Valletta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft, Magic and Superstition in England, 1640-70 written by Frederick Victor Alfred Valletta and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael D. Bailey
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801467306
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Fearful Spirits, Reasoned Follies written by Michael D. Bailey and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superstitions are commonplace in the modern world. Mostly, however, they evoke innocuous images of people reading their horoscopes or avoiding black cats. Certain religious practices might also come to mind—praying to St. Christopher or lighting candles for the dead. Benign as they might seem today, such practices were not always perceived that way. In medieval Europe superstitions were considered serious offenses, violations of essential precepts of Christian doctrine or immutable natural laws. But how and why did this come to be? In Fearful Spirits, Reasoned Follies, Michael D. Bailey explores the thorny concept of superstition as it was understood and debated in the Middle Ages. Bailey begins by tracing Christian thinking about superstition from the patristic period through the early and high Middle Ages. He then turns to the later Middle Ages, a period that witnessed an outpouring of writings devoted to superstition—tracts and treatises with titles such as De superstitionibus and Contra vitia superstitionum. Most were written by theologians and other academics based in Europe’s universities and courts, men who were increasingly anxious about the proliferation of suspect beliefs and practices, from elite ritual magic to common healing charms, from astrological divination to the observance of signs and omens. As Bailey shows, however, authorities were far more sophisticated in their reasoning than one might suspect, using accusations of superstition in a calculated way to control the boundaries of legitimate religion and acceptable science. This in turn would lay the conceptual groundwork for future discussions of religion, science, and magic in the early modern world. Indeed, by revealing the extent to which early modern thinkers took up old questions about the operation of natural properties and forces using the vocabulary of science rather than of belief, Bailey exposes the powerful but in many ways false dichotomy between the "superstitious" Middle Ages and "rational" European modernity.
Author : Willem De Blecourt
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526137976
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft continued written by Willem De Blecourt and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The study of witchcraft accusations in Europe during the period after the end of the witch trials is still in its infancy. Witches were scratched in England, swum in Germany, beaten in the Netherlands and shot in France. The continued widespread belief in witchcraft and magic in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France has received considerable academic attention. The book discusses the extent and nature of witchcraft accusations in the period and provides a general survey of the published work on the subject for an English audience. It explores the presence of magical elements in everyday life during the modern period in Spain. The book provides a general overview of vernacular magical beliefs and practices in Italy from the time of unification to the present, with particular attention to how these traditions have been studied. By functioning as mechanisms of social ethos and control, narratives of magical harm were assured a place at the very heart of rural Finnish social dynamics into the twentieth century. The book draws upon over 300 narratives recorded in rural Finland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that provide information concerning the social relations, tensions and strategies that framed sorcery and the counter-magic employed against it. It is concerned with a special form of witchcraft that is practised only amongst Hungarians living in Transylvania.
Author : Antoinette Marie Pratt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Attitude of the Catholic Church Towards Witchcraft and the Allied Practices of Sorcery and Magic written by Antoinette Marie Pratt and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helen L. Parish
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441100326
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Superstition and Magic in Early Modern Europe: A Reader written by Helen L. Parish and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superstition and Magic in Early Modern Europe brings together a rich selection of essays which represent the most important historical research on religion, magic and superstition in early modern Europe. Each essay makes a significant contribution to the history of magic and religion in its own right, while together they demonstrate how debates over the topic have evolved over time, providing invaluable intellectual, historical, and socio-political context for readers approaching the subject for the first time. The essays are organised around five key themes and areas of controversy. Part One tackles superstition; Part Two, the tension between miracles and magic; Part Three, ghosts and apparitions; Part Four, witchcraft and witch trials; and Part Five, the gradual disintegration of the 'magical universe' in the face of scientific, religious and practical opposition. Each part is prefaced by an introduction that provides an outline of the historiography and engages with recent scholarship and debate, setting the context for the essays that follow and providing a foundation for further study. This collection is an invaluable toolkit for students of early modern Europe, providing both a focused overview and a springboard for broader thinking about the underlying continuities and discontinuities that make the study of magic and superstition a perennially fascinating topic.
Author : William John Fielding
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Strange Superstitions and Magical Practices written by William John Fielding and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frances Timbers
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526731827
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book A History of Magic and Witchcraft written by Frances Timbers and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Magic and Masculinity explores the history and development of magic and witchcraft in Western society. Broomsticks, cauldrons, familiars, and spells—magic and witchcraft conjure a vivid picture in our modern-day imagination. While much of our understanding is rooted in superstition and myth, the history of magic and witchcraft offers a window into the past. It illuminates the lives of ordinary people in the past and elucidates the fascinating pop culture of the premodern world. Blowing away folkloric cobwebs, this enlightening new history dispels many misconceptions surrounding witchcraft and magic that we still hold today. From Ancient Greece and Rome to the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, historian Frances Timbers details the impact of Christianity and popular culture in the construction of the figure of the “witch.” The development of demonology and ceremonial magic is combined with the West’s troubled past with magic and witchcraft to chart the birth of modern Wiccan and Neopagan movements in England and North America. Witchcraft is a metaphor for oppression in an age in which persecution is an everyday occurrence somewhere in the world. Fanaticism, intolerance, prejudice, authoritarianism, and religious and political ideologies are never attractive. Beware the witch hunter!
