Witchcraft books

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Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England

Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England

Author: Alan MacFarlane ,  James Sharpe (York University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415196123
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This is a classic regional and comparative study of early modern witchcraft. The book provides an important case...  Read More >>

Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England

Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England

Author: Alan MacFarlane ,  James Sharpe (York University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415196116
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This is a classic regional and comparative study of early modern witchcraft. The book provides an important case...  Read More >>

The Crime of Crimes: Demonology and Politics in France, 1560-1620

The Crime of Crimes: Demonology and Politics in France,...

Author: Jonathan L. Pearl
ISBN: 9780889202962
Format: Hardback
$181.50

Most historians have described the witchcraft phenomenon as one of tremendous violence. In France, dozens of books,...  Read More >>

Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England

Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England...

Author: Elizabeth Reis
ISBN: 9780801486111
Format: Paperback
$55.00

In her analysis of the cultural construction of gender in early America, Elizabeth Reis explores the intersection...  Read More >>

A Community of Witches: Contemporary Neo-paganism and Witchcraft in the United States

A Community of Witches: Contemporary Neo-paganism and...

Author: Helen A. Berger
ISBN: 9781570032462
Format: Hardback
$50.60

Explores the beliefs and practices of neo-paganism and witchcraft, more generally known as Wicca. Imported to the...  Read More >>

'Wicked Arts': Witchcraft and Magic Trials in Southern Sweden, 1635-1754

'Wicked Arts': Witchcraft and Magic Trials in Southern...

Author: Per Sörlin
ISBN: 9789004111837
Format: Leather / fine binding
$388.08

Based on an extensive body of Swedish sources, this study presents new information on the regional pattern of European...  Read More >>

The Athlone History of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: Ancient Greece and Rome

The Athlone History of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe:...

Author: Valerie I. J. Flint ,  etc.
ISBN: 9780485891027
Format: Paperback
$158.40

This volume brings together new research into the place of witchcraft and magic in Greek and Roman culture and society....  Read More >>

The Athlone History of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

The Athlone History of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe:...

Author: Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra ,  etc.
ISBN: 9780485890051
Format: Hardback
$422.40

The end of the 18th century saw the end of witch trials. This volume charts the processes and reasons for decriminalizing...  Read More >>

Shaman of Oberstdorf: Chonrad Stoeckhlin and the Phantoms of the Night

Shaman of Oberstdorf: Chonrad Stoeckhlin and the Phantoms...

Author: Wolfgang Behringer ,  H.C.Erik Midelfort
ISBN: 9780813918532
Format: Paperback
$64.90

The book focuses on the life of a horse wrangler named Chonrad Stoeckhlin (1549-1587), whose visions of the afterlife...  Read More >>

The Devil, Heresy and Witchcraft in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey B. Russell

The Devil, Heresy and Witchcraft in the Middle Ages:...

Author: Alberto Ferreiro
ISBN: 9789004106109
Format: Leather / fine binding
$390.72

Jeffrey B. Russell has written numerous books and articles studying heresy, heterodoxy and belief in magic, witchcraft...  Read More >>

A Trial of Witches: A Seventeenth Century Witchcraft Prosecution

A Trial of Witches: A Seventeenth Century Witchcraft...

Author: Ivan Bunn ,  Gilbert Geis
ISBN: 9780415171090
Format: Paperback
$105.00

In 1662, Amy Denny and Rose Cullender were accused of witchcraft and stood trial and were hanged in Lowestoft. This...  Read More >>

The Feast of the Sorcerer: Practices of Consciousness and Power

The Feast of the Sorcerer: Practices of Consciousness...

Author: Bruce Kapferer
ISBN: 9780226424132
Format: Paperback
$92.95

Sorcery has long been associated with the ""dark side"" of human development, along with magic and witchcraft. This...  Read More >>

The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History

The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History

Author: Peter Charles Hoffer
ISBN: 9780700608591
Format: Paperback
$34.19

In late 17th-century Salem, Massachusetts, neighbours turned against neighbours and children against parents with...  Read More >>

The Feast of the Sorcerer: Practices of Consciousness and Power

The Feast of the Sorcerer: Practices of Consciousness...

Author: Bruce Kapferer
ISBN: 9780226424118
Format: Hardback
$203.95

Sorcery has long been associated with the ""dark side"" of human development, along with magic and witchcraft. This...  Read More >>

Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in Early Modern England

Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in Early Modern...

Author: James Sharpe
ISBN: 9780812216332
Format: Paperback
$80.99

The first comprehensive scholarly history of witchcraft in England in over eighty years.  Read More >>

Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies

Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and...

Author: Elaine G. Breslaw
ISBN: 9780814713075
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Reconstructing the life of the slave woman at the center of the notorious Salem witch trials, this book follows...  Read More >>

Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England

Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England...

Author: Elizabeth Reis
ISBN: 9780801428340
Format: Hardback
$171.47

In her analysis of the cultural construction of gender in early America, Elizabeth Reis explores the intersection...  Read More >>

The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa

The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult...

Author: Peter Geschiere ,  Janet Roitman
ISBN: 9780813917030
Format: Paperback
$69.30

This study suggests that the balance in Africa, between the prevalence of witchcraft and the forces of modernity,...  Read More >>

The History of Witchcraft and Demonology

The History of Witchcraft and Demonology

Author: Montague Summers
ISBN: 9780415155687
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This work provides a landmark in early twentieth century publishing summarizing the most up-to-date findings in...  Read More >>

Secrets of a Witch's Coven

Secrets of a Witch's Coven

Author: Morwyn ,  Skye Alexander
ISBN: 9780914918806
Format: Paperback
$42.99

Since the advent of Christianity, witches have been forced to practice their religion in secret. Now High Priestess...  Read More >>

Magic and Divination in the Middle Ages: Texts and Techniques in the Islamic and Christian Worlds

Magic and Divination in the Middle Ages: Texts and Techniques...

Author: Charles Burnett
ISBN: 9780860786153
Format: Hardback
$284.00

After discussing the terminology of talismanic magic (or necromancy) and its position in divisions of science in...  Read More >>

When, Why ...If: An Ethics Workbook

When, Why ...If: An Ethics Workbook

Author: Robin Wood
ISBN: 9780965298407
Format: Paperback
$34.19

A workbook to help you design your own system of ethics, written from a Wiccan perspective.  Read More >>

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