Early modern witches : witchcraft cases in contemporary writing /

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The sixteen examples collected here describe fifteen English witchcraft cases in detail, vividly recreating events to give the reader the illusion of actually being present at witchcraft accusations, trials and hangings. But how much are we, as readers, victims of literary manipulation by the author...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gibson, Marion, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge, 2000.
Temas:
Witchcraft > England > History > Sources.
Sorcellerie > Angleterre > Histoire > Sources.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Magick Studies.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Witchcraft & Wicca.
Witchcraft.
England.
Electronic books.
History.
Sources.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter Introduction
  • chapter 1 The Examination and Confession of certaine Wytches (1566)
  • chapter 2 The Examination of John Walsh (1566)
  • chapter 3 A Rehearsall both straung and true (1579)
  • chapter 4 A Detection of damnable driftes (1579)
  • chapter 5 Richard Galis, A brief treatise (1579)
  • chapter 6W.W., A true and just Recorde (1582)
  • chapter 7 The severall factes of Witch-crafte (1585)
  • chapter 8 The Apprehension and confession of three notorious Witches (1589)
  • chapter 9 A Most Wicked worke of a wretched Witch (1592)
  • chapter 10 'A memoriall of certaine most notorious witches' (1595)
  • chapter 11 'The severall practises of Johane Harrison and her daughter' (1606)
  • chapter 12 The Witches of Northamptonshire (1612)
  • chapter 13 Thomas Potts, The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches (1612)
  • chapter 14 Witches Apprehended (1613)
  • chapter 15 The Wonderful Discovery of the Witchcrafts of Margaret / and Phillip Flower (1619)
  • chapter 16 Henry Goodcole, The wonderfull discoverie of Elizabeth Sawyer, a Witch (1621).

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