Download or read book Reading Witchcraft written by Marion Gibson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Witchcraft explores the stories told by and about 'witches' and their 'victims', and questions what can be recovered from their trial records, pamphlets and personal accounts. It is an invaluable study of witchcraft stories.
Download or read book Reading Witchcraft written by Marion Gibson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original study of witchcraft, Gibson explores the stories told by and about witches and their 'victims' through trial records, early news books, pamphlets and fascinating personal accounts. The author discusses the issues surrounding the interpretation of original historical sources and demonstrates that their representations of witchcraft are far from straight forward or reliable. Innovative and thought-provoking, this book sheds new light on early modern people's responses to witches and on the sometimes bizarre flexibility of the human imagination.
Download or read book The Witchcraft Reader written by Darren Oldridge and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The excellent reader offers a selection of the best historical writing on witchcraft, exploring how belief in witchcraft began, and the social and context in which this belief flourished.
Download or read book The Witchcraft Reader written by Darren Oldridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Witchcraft and Sorcery written by Max Marwick and published by Penguin (Non-Classics). This book was released on 1982 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part One looks at the different approaches to the topic, and includes an extract from Evans-Pritchard's classic study of the Azande. Part Two samples the rich ethnography of witchcraft, and contains papers on the European and Salem witch-hunts. Part Three looks at theories of witchcraft and particularly at how witchcraft and cultist movements are often indicators of social strain. Part Four looks at the urbanization of modern witchcraft and Part Five at the way in which witch-beliefs throw light on other problems.
Download or read book The Modern Witchcraft Book of Tarot written by Skye Alexander and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the secrets of the cards! For hundreds of years, the tarot has been an essential tool used in witchcraft--from divining the future to aiding in spellcasting. As tools to aid a witch's natural clairvoyance, the tarot and witchcraft are entwined, with the cards and the craft sharing many symbols and roots in the elements. Learn how to interpret and connect with the cards. From reading spreads to using your deck during spellcasting, you will soon grasp the full power of the tarot.
Download or read book Witches and Witchcraft Chronicles of the Mystical written by Robert J Dornan and published by Robert J Dornan. This book was released on 2023-11-08 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Title: Witches and Witchcraft: Chronicles of the Mystical Genre: Non-Fiction - Spirituality, Wicca, Witchcraft Unveil the Mysteries of Witchcraft! Step into the enchanting world of witches and witchcraft with this illuminating guide. Spanning from ancient traditions to contemporary practices, "Witches and Witchcraft" takes you on a 360-page journey of discovery. Delve into the legends, myths, and fascinating stories of famous witches throughout history. Explore the dark chapters of witch hunts and persecution, and the empowering aspects of witchcraft and feminism. As you journey through each chapter, you'll uncover the duality of witches, the mystical rituals, and their roles in literature, pop culture, and modern spirituality. This book is your key to understanding the world of witches, their connection to nature, and their powerful craft. Whether you're a curious seeker or considering joining a coven, this comprehensive guide offers a deep insight into the world of witchcraft. With a commitment to dispelling myths and revealing the truth, "Witches and Witchcraft" is an essential resource for anyone captivated by the mysticism and spirituality of witches. Get your copy today and embark on a journey of knowledge and discovery!
Download or read book Witchcraft the Devil and Emotions in Early Modern England written by Charlotte-Rose Millar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the first systematic study of the role of the Devil in English witchcraft pamphlets for the entire period of state-sanctioned witchcraft prosecutions (1563-1735). It provides a rereading of English witchcraft, one which moves away from an older historiography which underplays the role of the Devil in English witchcraft and instead highlights the crucial role that the Devil, often in the form of a familiar spirit, took in English witchcraft belief. One of the key ways in which this book explores the role of the Devil is through emotions. Stories of witches were made up of a complex web of emotionally implicated accusers, victims, witnesses, and supposed perpetrators. They reveal a range of emotional experiences that do not just stem from malefic witchcraft but also, and primarily, from a witch’s links with the Devil. This book, then, has two main objectives. First, to suggest that English witchcraft pamphlets challenge our understanding of English witchcraft as a predominantly non-diabolical crime, and second, to highlight how witchcraft narratives emphasized emotions as the primary motivation for witchcraft acts and accusations.
Download or read book Early Modern Witches written by Marion Gibson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of fifteen English witchcraft cases, some of which have never appeared in print before. It combines the original spelling editions of popular texts with scholarly annotation and will prove an essential resource to withcraft scholars.
Download or read book Palgrave Advances in Witchcraft Historiography written by J. Barry and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-05-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to offer a detailed modern survey of Witchcraft historiography. By using a broad chronological structure, from contemporary responses through to modern day, the book draws on contributions from a range of leading experts in the field to provide a much-needed overview of the area.
Download or read book Witches and Witchcraft written by David Nash and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witchcraft haunts the Western imagination to this day, from Central Europe to Britain to North America. This book explores the development of witchcraft and of the belief in it (stressing the difference between the two), the sixteenthand seventeenth-century obsession that spawned witch-hunting, the eventual decline of witchcraft, and the phenomenon's fascinating 'afterlife' that has involved the Nazis' fixation and modern treatments including Arthur Miller's acclaimed The Crucible. Fully illustrated with historical documents and colour photographs, and expertly written by Professor David Nash, this book is the perfect introduction to a subject that is compelling, disturbing and a little-understood cultural touchstone.
Download or read book European Magic and Witchcraft written by Martha Rampton and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic, witches, and demons have drawn interest and fear throughout human history. In this comprehensive primary source reader, Martha Rampton traces the history of our fascination with magic and witchcraft from the first through to the seventeenth century. In over 80 readings presented chronologically, Rampton demonstrates how understandings of and reactions toward magic changed and developed over time, and how these ideas were influenced by various factors such as religion, science, and law. The wide-ranging texts emphasize social history and include early Merovingian law codes, the Picatrix, Lombard’s Sentences, The Golden Legend, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. By presenting a full spectrum of source types including hagiography, law codes, literature, and handbooks, this collection provides readers with a broad view of how magic was understood through the medieval and early modern eras. Rampton’s introduction to the volume is a passionate appeal to students to use tolerance, imagination, and empathy when travelling back in time. The introductions to individual readings are deliberately minimal, providing just enough context so that students can hear medieval voices for themselves.
Download or read book Witchcraft and Magic in Ireland written by Andrew Sneddon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first academic overview of witchcraft and popular magic in Ireland and spans the medieval to the modern period. Based on a wide range of un-used and under-used primary source material, and taking account of denominational difference between Catholic and Protestant, it provides a detailed account of witchcraft trials and accusation.
Download or read book Classic and Contemporary Readings in Sociology written by Ian Marsh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic and Contemporary Readings in Sociology introduces the reader to sociological issues, theories and debates, providing extracts of primary source material, from both classical and contemporary theorists. Theorists are examined within their historical and sociological framework and the text provides an analysis of developments in sociological thought and research. The text is divided into four main sections: Part One, Origins and Concepts, surveys the history of the discipline of sociology and examines key themes which have influenced sociological theorising and investigation, in particular, social control, culture and socialisation. Parts Two and Four, Sociological Theories and Sociological Research, include a number of readings from the founding theorists and investigators, including Auguste Comte, Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Max Weber and Charles Booth, and also include more recent theoretical writing and research approaches. The focus on theory and research is extended by a selection of readings centred around the theme of Differences and Inequalities (Part Three); these readings provide students with examples of work from an area where sociological theorising and research has been widely applied.
Download or read book Witches of the North written by Liv Helene Willumsen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witches of the North. Scotland and Finnmark is a comparative study of witchcraft persecution in Scotland and Finnmark, Norway. A wide range of quantitative and qualitative analyses based mainly on legal documents shed light on the witch-hunts in the two regions during the seventeenth century. Statistical analyses give information about tendencies in the source material in total. The qualitative chapters contain close-readings of trial documents, wherein the various voices heard during a trial are analysed: the voice of the scribe, the voice of the law, the voice of the accused person and the voices of the witnesses. The analyses combined provide a broad view of the historical phenomenon in question as well as in-depth studies of individual witchcraft cases.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America written by Brian P. Levack and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this Handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries. During these years witches were thought to be evil people who used magical power to inflict physical harm or misfortune on their neighbours. Witches were also believed to have made pacts with the devil and sometimes to have worshipped him at nocturnal assemblies known as sabbaths. These beliefs provided the basis for defining witchcraft as a secular and ecclesiastical crime and prosecuting tens of thousands of women and men for this offence. The trials resulted in as many as fifty thousand executions. These essays 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. They also relate these prosecutions to the Catholic and Protestant reformations, the introduction of new forms of criminal procedure, medical and scientific thought, the process of state-building, profound social and economic change, early modern patterns of gender relations, and the wave of demonic possessions that occurred in Europe at the same time. The essays survey the current state of knowledge in the field, explore the academic controversies that have arisen regarding witch beliefs and witch trials, propose new ways of studying the subject, and identify areas for future research.
Download or read book Witches Collection written by Pierre Macedo and published by Leirbag Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a single book, you have access to the best-selling The Ultimate Book of Magic and Witchcraft: A How-To Book on the Practice of Magic Rituals and Spells and Wicca - Quick Guide for Practitioners, plus a Tarot reading app you can use on your Android phone. BOOK 01: THE ULTIMATE BOOK OF MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT Transform Your Life with Real Spells, Rituals, and Other Practices Taught in This Book The keyword of this book is practicality. It is intended for those who want to practice magic without having to read long theoretical books. The Ultimate Book of Magic and Witchcraft allows you to use magic immediately after opening it. It contains a variety of exclusive spells and rituals, such as love, money, beauty, evocations, protection. It also introduces the reader to magical sigils, such as spirit and planetary sigils. No other book teaches the right way to evoke Lucifer and Michael. No other book gives a detailed beauty ritual with the Norse gods Frey and Freya or a powerful love spell with the mysterious Lilith. No other author ever covered so many subjects, from love to planetary magic, in a single work, as Pierre Macedo did. No matter if you are a white or black magic practitioner, a Wicca follower, or if you need some spiritual help, this work was written for you. Now you have in your hands the key to change the course of your life. Here’s a Small Sample of What You Will Find in This Book of Witchcraft, Rituals and Magic Spells Instructions on how to prepare yourself to perform rituals, cast spells, etc. White magic spells Black magic spells Love spells Manipulation spells Breaking and cleansing spells Magical evocation: instructions on how to summon spirits Planetary magic It’s worth mentioning that this book contains real spells, rituals, and other witchcraft practices that work if you follow all the instructions provided. BOOK 02: WICCA - QUICK GUIDE FOR PRACTITIONERS This book provides all the necessary information you need to create any rituals and spells. It contains lists of spirits you can work with, planets, incense for every occasion, candles, herbs, and many more. All the following areas are covered in this guide. • Friendship • Love • Marriage • Sexual Attraction • Pregnancy • Message / Contact • Health / Healing • Protection • Purification • Enemies • Lucid Dream • Divination • Money • Luck and Success • Beauty It also comes with two exclusive spells for money and love. PRACTICAL TAROT READING Read Tarot cards without a physical deck. Practical Tarot Reading uses the 22 Major Arcana to answer questions just like a traditional reading, but better. Our shuffling algorithm guarantees a completely random shuffling. In other words, it's impossible to predict or control how the cards are presented on the screen, and that's what makes this app so accurate.
