The Witchcraft Sourcebook, now in its second edition, is a fascinating collection of documents that illustrates the development of ideas about witchcraft from ancient times to the eighteenth century. Many of the sources come from the period between 1400 and 1750, when more than 100,000 people - most of them women - were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe and colonial America. During these. Witchcraft PDF. Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft has influenced and guided countless students, coven initiates, and solitaries around the world. One of modern Wicca's most recommended books, this comprehensive text features a step-by-step course in Witchcraft, with information on rituals, beliefs.
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Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit Publisher : Psychology Press ISBN_10 : 9780415195065 Copyright Year : 2004 File Format : PDF, EPUB File Download : 348 Price : FREE GET THIS BOOK
DESCRIPTION : This collection of trial records, laws, treatises, sermons, speeches, woodcuttings, paintings and literary texts illustrates how contemporaries from various periods have perceived alleged witches and their activities.
Genre : Publisher : ISBN_10 : 036724165X Copyright Year : 2019-02-02 File Format : PDF, EPUB File Download : Price : FREE GET THIS BOOK
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📒New Perspectives On Witchcraft Magic And Demonologyby Brian P. Levack
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit Publisher : ISBN_10 : 0815336683 Copyright Year : 2001 File Format : PDF, EPUB File Download : 2100 Price : FREE GET THIS BOOK
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📒The Oxford Handbook Of Witchcraft In Early Modern Europe And Colonial Americaby Brian P. Levack
Genre : History Publisher : Oxford University Press ISBN_10 : 9780199578160 Copyright Year : 2013-03-28 File Format : PDF, EPUB File Download : 630 Price : FREE GET THIS BOOK
DESCRIPTION : A collection of essays from leading scholars in the field that collectively study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingdoms and territories of Europe and in English, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies in the Americas.
📒The Witch Hunt In Early Modern Europeby Brian P. Levack
Genre : History Publisher : Routledge ISBN_10 : 9781317875598 Copyright Year : 2013-11-05 File Format : PDF, EPUB File Download : 360 Price : FREE GET THIS BOOK
DESCRIPTION : Between 1450 and 1750 thousands of people – most of them women – were accused, prosecuted and executed for the crime of witchcraft. The witch-hunt was not a single event; it comprised thousands of individual prosecutions, each shaped by the religious and social dimensions of the particular area as well as political and legal factors. Brian Levack sorts through the proliferation of theories to provide a coherent introduction to the subject, as well as contributing to the scholarly debate. The book: Examines why witchcraft prosecutions took place, how many trials and victims there were, and why witch-hunting eventually came to an end. Explores the beliefs of both educated and illiterate people regarding witchcraft. Uses regional and local studies to give a more detailed analysis of the chronological and geographical distribution of witch-trials. Emphasises the legal context of witchcraft prosecutions. Illuminates the social, economic and political history of early modern Europe, and in particular the position of women within it. In this fully updated third edition of his exceptional study, Levack incorporates the vast amount of literature that has emerged since the last edition. He substantially extends his consideration of the decline of the witch-hunt and goes further in his exploration of witch-hunting after the trials, especially in contemporary Africa. New illustrations vividly depict beliefs about witchcraft in early modern Europe.
📒Magic Witchcraft And Ghosts In The Greek And Roman Worldsby Daniel Ogden
Genre : History Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA ISBN_10 : 0195151232 Copyright Year : 2002 File Format : PDF, EPUB File Download : 353 Price : FREE GET THIS BOOK
DESCRIPTION : In a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary mythic tradition and in ritual practice. In this book, Daniel Ogden presents 300 texts in new translations, along with brief but explicit commentaries. Authors include the well known (Sophocles, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Pliny) and the less familiar, and extend across the whole of Graeco-Roman antiquity.
Genre : History Publisher : Routledge ISBN_10 : 9781351345231 Copyright Year : 2019-09-16 File Format : PDF, EPUB File Download : 470 Price : FREE GET THIS BOOK
DESCRIPTION : The Witchcraft Reader offers a wide range of historical perspectives on the subject of witchcraft in a single, accessible volume, exploring the enduring hold that it has on human imagination. The witch trials of the late Middle Ages and the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have inspired a huge and expanding scholarly literature, as well as an outpouring of popular representations. This fully revised and enlarged third edition brings together many of the best and most important works in the field. It explores the origins of witchcraft prosecutions in learned and popular culture, fears of an imaginary witch cult, the role of religious division and ideas about the Devil, the gendering of suspects, the making of confessions and the decline of witch beliefs. An expanded final section explores the various 'revivals' and images of witchcraft that continue to flourish in contemporary Western culture. Equipped with an extensive introduction that foregrounds significant debates and themes in the study of witchcraft, providing the extracts with a critical context, The Witchcraft Reader is essential reading for anyone with an interest in this fascinating subject.
📒The Witch Hunt In Early Modern Europe 4ed And The Witchcraft Sourcebook 2ed Bundleby Brian P. Levack
Genre : Publisher : ISBN_10 : 1138926566 Copyright Year : 2015-10-06 File Format : PDF, EPUB File Download : Price : FREE GET THIS BOOK
DESCRIPTION : The fourth edition of The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe,written by one of the leading names in the field, is the ideal resource for both students and scholars of the witch-hunts.For those starting out in their studies of witch-beliefs and witchcraft trials, Brian Levack provides a concise survey of this complex and fascinating topic, while for more seasoned scholars the scholarship is brought right up to date. The Witchcraft Sourcebook, now in its second edition, is a fascinating collection of documents illustrating the development of ideas about witchcraft from ancient times to the eighteenth century along with commentary and background by Brian Levack. Including trial records, demonological treatises and sermons, literary texts, narratives of demonic possession and artistic depiction of witches, the documents show how notions of witchcraft have changed over time, and consider the connection between gender and witchcraft and the nature of the witch's perceived power. Available to purchase as a bundle, together these two books make the perfect collection for students and lecturers of witchcraft and witch-hunts in the early modern period.
Genre : History Publisher : Routledge ISBN_10 : 9780429603907 Copyright Year : 2019-07-16 File Format : PDF, EPUB File Download : 232 Price : FREE GET THIS BOOK
DESCRIPTION : Shortlisted for the 2008 Katharine Briggs Award Witch-Hunting in Scotland presents a fresh perspective on the trial and execution of the hundreds of women and men prosecuted for the crime of witchcraft, an offence that involved the alleged practice of maleficent magic and the worship of the devil, for inflicting harm on their neighbours and making pacts with the devil. Brian P. Levack draws on law, politics and religion to explain the intensity of Scottish witch-hunting. Topics discussed include: the distinctive features of the Scottish criminal justice system the use of torture to extract confessions the intersection of witch-hunting with local and national politics the relationship between state-building and witch-hunting and the role of James VI Scottish Calvinism and the determination of zealous Scottish clergy and magistrates to achieve a godly society. This original survey combines broad interpretations of the rise and fall of Scottish witchcraft prosecutions with detailed case studies of specific witch-hunts. Witch-Hunting in Scotland makes fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in witchcraft or in the political, legal and religious history of the early modern period.
📒The Modern Witch S Complete Sourcebookby Gerina Dunwich
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit Publisher : Citadel Press ISBN_10 : 0806522933 Copyright Year : 2001 File Format : PDF, EPUB File Download : 291 Price : FREE GET THIS BOOK
DESCRIPTION : Whether you're a Wiccan searching for a website, a Pagan on the hunt for paraphernalia, or a New Ager trying to find an art class, here in the ultimate resource guide to all things magickal. Everything you need to know is right here in this comprehensive, easy-to-use volume that has been exhaustively researched and completely revised.