Witchcraft : a history in thirteen trials

Gibson, Marion, 1970- author.

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"Witchcraft is a ... journey through thirteen witch trials across history, some famous-like the Salem witch trials-and some lesser-known: on Vardø island, Norway, in the 1620s, where an indigenous Sami woman was accused of murder; in France in 1731, during the country's last witch trial, where a young woman was pitted against her confessor and cult leader; in Pennsylvania in 1929 where a magical healer was labelled a 'witch'; in Lesotho in 1948,...

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Marginality, Social

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Witch hunting History

Witchcraft History

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ISBN:

9781668002421
1668002426

Edition:

First Scribner hardcover edition

Description:

xx, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Witchcraft : a history in 13 trials

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Introduction : what is a witch?
Part one. Origins
The trial of Helena Scheuberin : a demonologist hammers witches
The trial of the North Berwick witches : a king delights in demonology
The trial of the Vardø witches : demonology at Europe's colonial edge
The trial of Joan Wright : practical magic and America's first witch
The trial of Bess Clarke : disability and demonic families in the English Civil War
The trial of Tatbe : slavery and survival on the Salem frontier
Intermission : from demonlogy to doubt
Part two. Echoes
The trial of Marie-Catherine Cadière : witches reimagined and a French Revolution
The trial of Montague Summers : satanism, sex, and demonology reborn
The trial of John Blymyer : powwow and poverty in Pennsylvania
The trial of Nellie Duncan : witchcraft acts and World War II
The trial of Bereng Lerotholi and Gabashane Masupha : magical murder at the end of European empire
Intermission : witch trials today
Part three. Transformations
The trial of "Shula": witchcraft in Africa
The trial of Stormy Daniels : witchcraft in North America
Epilogue : so, what is a witch now?

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3292184

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