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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc
Publication date
June 19, 2014
Pages
470
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781445622026
ISBN-10
1445622025
Dimensions
2 by 7 by 9 in.
Weight
2 lbs.
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$42.00
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: For over five hundred years witches, male and female, practised magic for harm and good in their communities. Most witches worked locally, used by their neighbours to cure illness, create love, or gratify personal spite against another. Margaret Lindsay from Northumberland was prosecuted for making men impotent, John Stokes in London for curing fevers, Collas de la Rue on Guernsey for killing people by witchcraft, Florence Newton from County Cork for causing fits, and Isobel Gowdie in Auldearn for a variety of offences including consorting with Satan and fairies. But in the fifteenth century they attacked a succession of English monarchs through enchanted images, and in the sixteenth sought ways to kill James VI of Scotland, too. A succession of Acts of Parliament made much magic criminal and punished offenders severely, until a final Act in 1735 repealed them. This monumental new history for the first time describes witches, their magic, and the attempts to eradicate them throughout the British Isles, and alters our picture of who those witches were and why people employed them but also tried to suppress them.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc (June 19, 2014)
9781445622026 | details & prices | 470 pages | 7.00 × 9.00 × 2.00 in. | 2.00 lbs | List price $42.00
About: For over five hundred years witches, male and female, practised magic for harm and good in their communities.
About: For over five hundred years witches, male and female, practised magic for harm and good in their communities.
Paperback
from Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc (June 19, 2016)
9781445655437 | details & prices | 464 pages | List price $18.00
About: For over 500 years witches, male and female, practised magic for both harm and good in their communities.
About: For over 500 years witches, male and female, practised magic for both harm and good in their communities.
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