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Book The Child Witches of Olague

Download or read book The Child Witches of Olague written by Lu Ann Homza and published by . This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines village interactions in the witch-hunt that tormented Navarre from 1608-1614. Includes the legal depositions of self-described child-witches, their parents, and their victims, illuminating the social, familial, and legal tragedies that could accompany witchcraft suspicions and accusations.

Book The Child Witches of Olague

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lu Ann Homza
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2024-05-20
  • ISBN : 0271098376
  • Pages : 125 pages

Download or read book The Child Witches of Olague written by Lu Ann Homza and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2024-05-20 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Child Witches of Olague

Download or read book The Child Witches of Olague written by Lu Ann Homza and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines village interactions in the witch-hunt that tormented Navarre from 1608-1614. Includes the legal depositions of self-described child-witches, their parents, and their victims, illuminating the social, familial, and legal tragedies that could accompany witchcraft suspicions and accusations"--

Book Village Infernos and Witches    Advocates

Download or read book Village Infernos and Witches Advocates written by Lu Ann Homza and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revises what we thought we knew about one of the most famous witch hunts in European history. Between 1608 and 1614, thousands of witchcraft accusations were leveled against men, women, and children in the northern Spanish kingdom of Navarre. The Inquisition intervened quickly but incompetently, and the denunciations continued to accelerate. As the phenomenon spread, children began to play a crucial role. Not only were they reportedly victims of the witches’ harmful magic, but hundreds of them also insisted that witches were taking them to the Devil’s gatherings against their will. Presenting important archival discoveries, Lu Ann Homza restores the perspectives of illiterate, Basque-speaking individuals to the history of this shocking event and demonstrates what could happen when the Spanish Inquisition tried to take charge of a liminal space. Because the Spanish Inquisition was the body putting those accused of witchcraft on trial, modern scholars have depended upon Inquisition sources for their research. Homza’s groundbreaking book combines new readings of the Inquisitional evidence with fresh archival finds from non-Inquisitional sources, including local secular and religious courts, and from notarial and census records. Expanding our understanding of this witch hunt as well as the history of children, community norms, and legal expertise in early modern Europe, Village Infernos and Witches’ Advocates is required reading for students and scholars of the Spanish Inquisition and the history of witchcraft in early modern Europe.

Book Village Infernos and Witches    Advocates

Download or read book Village Infernos and Witches Advocates written by Lu Ann Homza and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revises what we thought we knew about one of the most famous witch hunts in European history. Between 1608 and 1614, thousands of witchcraft accusations were leveled against men, women, and children in the northern Spanish kingdom of Navarre. The Inquisition intervened quickly but incompetently, and the denunciations continued to accelerate. As the phenomenon spread, children began to play a crucial role. Not only were they reportedly victims of the witches’ harmful magic, but hundreds of them also insisted that witches were taking them to the Devil’s gatherings against their will. Presenting important archival discoveries, Lu Ann Homza restores the perspectives of illiterate, Basque-speaking individuals to the history of this shocking event and demonstrates what could happen when the Spanish Inquisition tried to take charge of a liminal space. Because the Spanish Inquisition was the body putting those accused of witchcraft on trial, modern scholars have depended upon Inquisition sources for their research. Homza’s groundbreaking book combines new readings of the Inquisitional evidence with fresh archival finds from non-Inquisitional sources, including local secular and religious courts, and from notarial and census records. Expanding our understanding of this witch hunt as well as the history of children, community norms, and legal expertise in early modern Europe, Village Infernos and Witches’ Advocates is required reading for students and scholars of the Spanish Inquisition and the history of witchcraft in early modern Europe.

Book Witch Child

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  • Author : Celia Rees
  • Publisher : Candlewick Press
  • Release : 2009-05-12
  • ISBN : 0763642282
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Witch Child written by Celia Rees and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.

Book The Witch s Children

Download or read book The Witch s Children written by Ursula Jones and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-05-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the two older witch's children use their magic to create trouble in the park, the Little One knows how to fix the problem.

Book The Child Witches of Lucerne and Buchau

Download or read book The Child Witches of Lucerne and Buchau written by Waltraud Maierhofer and published by Lehigh University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her research on witchcraft trials, Swiss writer Eveline Hasler discovered children who were accused of witchcraft and punished by death. With this thought-provoking novel, The Child Witches of Lucerne and Buchau, provides a moving memorial for them, translated from the original German by Waltraud Maierhofer and Jennifer Vanderbeek.

Book The Children of Witches

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  • Author : Sherri Smith
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 1847371876
  • Pages : 331 pages

Download or read book The Children of Witches written by Sherri Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Married to a drunken tavern-keeper, Anna Wirth takes comfort in her two sons, hard-working Konrad and the beautiful, flaxen-haired Manfred, who sings like an angel and who, some say, has been touched by God.

Book The Witch s Child

Download or read book The Witch s Child written by Arthur Yorinks and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desiring a child of her own, Rosina the witch fashions one out of straw and scraps, but when she cannot bring the rag child to life she becomes enraged and turns the village children into shrubs, where they stay until a kind girl discovers the discarded doll and saves her.

Book The Witch child

Download or read book The Witch child written by Imogen Chichester and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women Healing Healing Women

Download or read book Women Healing Healing Women written by Elaine Wainwright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Women Healing/ Healing Women' begins with a search for women who were healers in the Graeco-Roman world of the late Hellenistic and early Roman period. Women healers were honoured in inscriptions and named by medical writers, and were familiar enough to be stereotyped in plays and other writings. What emerges by the first century of the Common Era is a world in which women functioned as healers but where healing becomes a contested site for gender relations. By the time the gospels are written the place of women as healers is effectively erased. The book uses the historical and cultural evidence to re-read the gospel texts and discover healers in a woman pouring out ointment, healed women bearing on their bodies the language describing Jesus, and even in women possessed by demons.

Book The Magic of Rogues

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  • Author : Frank Klaassen
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2021-02-19
  • ISBN : 0271089520
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book The Magic of Rogues written by Frank Klaassen and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1510, nine men were tried in the Archbishop’s Court in York for attempting to find and extract a treasure on the moor near Mixindale through necromantic magic. Two decades later, William Neville and his magician were arrested by Thomas Cromwell for having engaged in a treasonous combination of magic practices and prophecy surrounding the death of William’s older brother, Lord Latimer, and the king. In The Magic of Rogues, Frank Klaassen and Sharon Hubbs Wright present the legal documents about and open a window onto these fascinating investigations of magic practitioners in early Tudor England. Set side by side with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century texts that describe the sorts of magic those practitioners performed, these documents are translated, contextualized, and presented in language accessible to nonspecialist readers. Their analysis reveals how magicians and cunning folk operated in extended networks in which they exchanged knowledge, manuscripts, equipment, and even clients; foregrounds magicians’ encounters with authority in ways that separate them from traditional narratives about witchcraft and witch trials; and suggests that the regulation and punishment of magic in the Tudor period were comparatively and perhaps surprisingly gentle. Incorporating the study of both intellectual and legal sources, The Magic of Rogues presents a well-rounded picture of illicit learned magic in early Tudor England. Engaging and accessible, this book will appeal to anyone seeking to understand the intersection of medieval legal history, religion, magic, esotericism, and Tudor history.

Book The Would be Witch

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  • Author : Ruth Chew
  • Publisher : Hastings House Pub
  • Release : 1977-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780803880849
  • Pages : 112 pages

Download or read book The Would be Witch written by Ruth Chew and published by Hastings House Pub. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two children are convinced that the owner of the nearby antique shop is a witch.

Book The White Witch

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  • Author : Elizabeth Goudge
  • Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
  • Release : 2021-10-19
  • ISBN : 1619708655
  • Pages : 423 pages

Download or read book The White Witch written by Elizabeth Goudge and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 17th-century Oxfordshire, Margaret waits in the manor for news from her husband—who’s fighting for the cause of Parliament. At Froniga’s hearth sits the wise woman whose moral clarity brings life to the community. Goudge’s novel explores the cost of zeal and the power of healing when village life is ruptured by national conflict.

Book Origins of the Witches    Sabbath

Download or read book Origins of the Witches Sabbath written by Michael D. Bailey and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the perception of magic as harmful is age-old, the notion of witches gathering together in large numbers, overtly worshiping demons, and receiving instruction in how to work harmful magic as part of a conspiratorial plot against Christian society was an innovation of the early fifteenth century. The sources collected in this book reveal this concept in its formative stages. The idea that witches were members of organized heretical sects or part of a vast diabolical conspiracy crystalized most clearly in a handful of texts written in the 1430s and clustered geographically around the arc of the western Alps. Michael D. Bailey presents accessible English translations of the five oldest surviving texts describing the witches’ sabbath and of two witch trials from the period. These sources, some of which were previously unavailable in English or available only in incomplete or out-of-date translations, show how perceptions of witchcraft shifted from a general belief in harmful magic practiced by individuals to a conspiratorial and organized threat that led to the witch hunts that shook northern Europe and went on to influence conceptions of diabolical witchcraft for centuries to come. Origins of the Witches’ Sabbath makes freshly available a profoundly important group of texts that are key to understanding the cultural context of this dark chapter in Europe’s history. It will be especially valuable to those studying the history of witchcraft, medieval and early modern legal history, religion and theology, magic, and esotericism.

Book DEMONOLOGY TYPES of DEMONS and EVIL SPIRITS Their Names and Activities  Volume 11

Download or read book DEMONOLOGY TYPES of DEMONS and EVIL SPIRITS Their Names and Activities Volume 11 written by Michael Freze and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-03 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM A BESTSELLING AUTHOR! A book about types, names, categories, and activities of demons and evil spirits in demonology. Hierarchy and categories of demons and evil spirits. Protection from evil spirits and demons. The author has appeared on numerous national television shows for his works: The History Channel, The Phil Donahue Show, The Leeza Show, and the EWTN Network (Mother Angelica Live!). Best-selling author of They Bore the Wounds of Christ: The Mystery of the Sacred Stigmata, Our Sunday Visitor, which received top-notch reviews. Michael Freze, S.F.O., has previously written 7 nationally-published traditional print books on Bible topics and supernatural phenomena. Demons and evil spirits have many names and characteristics that have come down to us through the traditions of the Church, the writing of the saints, and in the Bible. In addition, there is a hierarchy of evil spirits which have unique characteristics and activities that are well-known and documented. This book explains it all! A must read. Reviewed and given the Imprimatur by former Bishop Elden F. Curtiss of the Diocese of Helena, Montana.