Demonology and Witchcraft in the British Isles and Ireland
Demonology and Witchcraft in the British Isles and Ireland

Author: Various

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2020-09-17

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 152876479X

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An eclectic volume on the history of the supernatural in Britain and Ireland. Illustrating detailed aspects of mysticism and sorcery, this volume is a carefully curated collection of articles containing information on demons, witches, and spirits in the history of the British Isles and Ireland. The contents of this volume feature: - Elizabethan Demonology: Thomas Alfred Spalding - Scottish Demonology and Witchcraft - The Spirit World of Wales - Irish Witchcraft and Demonology: St. John D. Seymour

Witchcraft in the British Isles and New England
Witchcraft in the British Isles and New England

Author: Brian P. Levack

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-28

Total Pages: 563

ISBN-13: 1136538836

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Witchcraft and magical beliefs have captivated historians and artists for millennia, and stimulated an extraordinary amount of research among scholars in a wide range of disciplines. This new collection, from the editor of the highly acclaimed 1992 set, Articles on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology, extends the earlier volumes by bringing together the most important articles of the past twenty years and covering the profound changes in scholarly perspective over the past two decades. Featuring thematically organized papers from a broad spectrum of publications, the volumes in this set encompass the key issues and approaches to witchcraft research in fields such as gender studies, anthropology, sociology, literature, history, psychology, and law. This new collection provides students and researchers with an invaluable resource, comprising the most important and influential discussions on this topic. A useful introductory essay written by the editor precedes each volume.

The Encyclopedia Of Witchcraft & Demonology
The Encyclopedia Of Witchcraft & Demonology

Author: Rossell Hope Robbins

Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

Published: 2022-03-29

Total Pages: 1113

ISBN-13:

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With research sourced by the world's greatest libraries, Robbins has compiled a rational, balanced history of 300 years of horror concentrated primarily in Western Europe. Spanning from the 15th century through the 18th century, the witch-hunt frenzy marks a period of suppressed rational thought; never before have so many been so wrong. To better understand this phenomenon, Robbins examines how the meaning of "witch" has evolved and exposes the true nature of witchcraft—a topic widely discussed in popular culture, though remarkably misunderstood. First published in 1959, Robbins' encyclopedia remains the most authoritative and comprehensive body of information about witchcraft and demonology ever compiled in a single volume. Lavishly acclaimed in academic and popular reviews, this full-scale compendium of fact, history, and legend covers about every phase of this fascinating subject from its origins in the medieval times to its last eruptions in the 18th century. Accompanying the text are 250 illustrations from rare books, contemporary prints, and old manuscripts, many of which have been published here for the first time.

A Bewitched Land
A Bewitched Land

Author: Dr. Robert Curran

Publisher: The O'Brien Press

Published: 2012-10-04

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 1847175058

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Witch trials in the European or American sense were not common in Ireland although they did occur. In this book the stories of four remarkable court cases that took place from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century are told; other chapters chronicle the extraordinary lives of individuals deemed to be practitioners of the black arts – hedge witches, sorcerers and sinister characters. The book gives a unique insight into the fascinating overlap between witch belief and the vast range of fairy lore that held sway for many centuries throughout the land.

Witchcraft and Demonology in South-West England, 1640-1789
Witchcraft and Demonology in South-West England, 1640-1789

Author: J. Barry

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2016-04-05

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 9781349332298

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Using south-western England as a focus for considering the continued place of witchcraft and demonology in provincial culture in the period between the English and French revolutions, Barry shows how witch-beliefs were intricately woven into the fabric of daily life, even at a time when they arguably ceased to be of interest to the educated.

Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft

Author: Sir Walter Scott

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-06-12

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 1365190269

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Although written mostly as a fictional work, this piece of literature uses many real world examples of the occult to make its fictional points. Written in a series of ten letters, the book gives a very personal perspective on one person's view of the occult. Although Walter Scott was failing in health while writing this work, a unique charm is given to the text in the midst of his illness near the end of his life.

Possessed By the Devil
Possessed By the Devil

Author: Dr Andrew Sneddon

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2013-05-15

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 0752480871

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In 1711, in County Antrim, Ireland, eight women were put on trial accused of bewitching and demonically possessing young Mary Dunbar, amid an attack by evil spirits on the local community and the supernatural murder of a clergyman's wife. Mary Dunbar was the star witness in this trial, and the women were, by the standards of the time, believable witches – they dabbled in magic, they smoked, they drank, they had disabilities. A second trial targeted a final male 'witch' and head of the Sellor 'witch family'. With echoes of the Salem witch-hunt, this is a story of murder, of a community in crisis, and of how the witch hunts that claimed over 50,000 lives in Europe played out on Irish shores. It plunges the reader into a world were magic was real and the power of the devil felt, with disastrous consequences.