European Witch Trials
European Witch Trials

Author: Richard Kieckhefer

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-04-28

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 0520320581

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

Popular Witchcraft
Popular Witchcraft

Author: Jack Fritscher

Publisher: Popular Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780299203047

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Popular Witchcraft: Straight from the Witch's Mouth, inspired by the British Gerald Gardner's Witchcraft Today, was the first book to be published on popular American witchcraft and remains the classic survey of white and black magic. Newly revised and updated for twenty-first-century readers, the author--an ordained but marvelously fallen exorcist--tells all about the evil eye, the queer eye, women and witch trials, the Old Religion, magic Christianity, Satanism, and New Age self-help. Jack Fritscher sifts through legends of sorcery and the twisted history of witchcraft, including the casting of spells and incantations, with a focus on the growing role of witchcraft in popular culture and its mainstream commercialization through popular music, Broadway, Hollywood, and politics. As seriously historical as it is fun to read, there is no other book like it.

A Popular History of Witchcraft (RLE Witchcraft)
A Popular History of Witchcraft (RLE Witchcraft)

Author: Montague Summers

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-23

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 113674018X

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This is a comprehensive guide to the practices of witchcraft from their inception to the present day. Summers argues that all witchcraft is essentially the same, regardless of geographical location. He examines the practices of the cult in great detail, and its historical progression, within the context of the 1736 Repeal Act of George II.

Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft
Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft

Author: Raymond Buckland

Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0875420508

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"This complete self-study course in modern Wicca is a treasured classic - an essential and trusted guide that belongs in every witch's library."---Back cover

Witch Hunting and Witch Trials (RLE Witchcraft)
Witch Hunting and Witch Trials (RLE Witchcraft)

Author: C L'Estrange Ewen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 113674004X

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Originally published in 1929, the author presents a formidable collection of facts, brought together in a scholarly manner. This is an examination of the general history of witchcraft, its changing laws and legal procedures, as well as methods of interrogation and punishment. This book must be considered an essential reference work for every student of witch lore.

The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe
The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe

Author: E. Bever

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-06-11

Total Pages: 643

ISBN-13: 0230582117

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Exploring the elements of reality in early modern witchcraft and popular magic, through a combination of detailed archival research and broad-ranging interdisciplinary analyses, this book complements and challenges existing scholarship, and offers unique insights into this murky aspect of early modern history.

A History of Witchcraft
A History of Witchcraft

Author: Jeffrey Burton Russell

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780500012253

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Studies the historical, anthropological, and religious manifestations of witchcraft, arguing that modern witchcraft in the West is in fact a serious religion that offers valuable insights

A History of Magic and Witchcraft
A History of Magic and Witchcraft

Author: Frances Timbers

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 2019-05-09

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1526731827

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The author of Magic and Masculinity explores the history and development of magic and witchcraft in Western society. Broomsticks, cauldrons, familiars, and spells—magic and witchcraft conjure a vivid picture in our modern-day imagination. While much of our understanding is rooted in superstition and myth, the history of magic and witchcraft offers a window into the past. It illuminates the lives of ordinary people in the past and elucidates the fascinating pop culture of the premodern world. Blowing away folkloric cobwebs, this enlightening new history dispels many misconceptions surrounding witchcraft and magic that we still hold today. From Ancient Greece and Rome to the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, historian Frances Timbers details the impact of Christianity and popular culture in the construction of the figure of the “witch.” The development of demonology and ceremonial magic is combined with the West’s troubled past with magic and witchcraft to chart the birth of modern Wiccan and Neopagan movements in England and North America. Witchcraft is a metaphor for oppression in an age in which persecution is an everyday occurrence somewhere in the world. Fanaticism, intolerance, prejudice, authoritarianism, and religious and political ideologies are never attractive. Beware the witch hunter!

Witchcraft and Colonial Rule in Kenya, 1900–1955
Witchcraft and Colonial Rule in Kenya, 1900–1955

Author: Katherine Luongo

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-09-26

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1139503456

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Focusing on colonial Kenya, this book shows how conflicts between state authorities and Africans over witchcraft-related crimes provided an important space in which the meanings of justice, law and order in the empire were debated. Katherine Luongo discusses the emergence of imperial networks of knowledge about witchcraft. She then demonstrates how colonial concerns about witchcraft produced an elaborate body of jurisprudence about capital crimes. The book analyzes the legal wrangling that produced the Witchcraft Ordinances in the 1910s, the birth of an anthro-administrative complex surrounding witchcraft in the 1920s, the hotly contested Wakamba Witch Trials of the 1930s, the explosive growth of legal opinion on witch-murder in the 1940s, and the unprecedented state-sponsored cleansings of witches and Mau Mau adherents during the 1950s. A work of anthropological history, this book develops an ethnography of Kamba witchcraft or uoi.