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Author: Bengt Ankarloo
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1999-10-14
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780812217070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTopics include modern pagan witchcraft, Satanism, and the continued existence of traditional witchcraft.
Author: Willem de Blecourt
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780485890068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWitchcraft continues to play a role in the modern European imagination and in its cultures. This book brings together studies of its most important modern manifestations. The volume includes a major new history of the origins and development of English 'Wicca', an account of satanic abuse mythology in the Twentieth Century and a survey of the continued existence of traditional witchcraft.
Author: Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0485891050
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe end of the 18th century saw the end of witch trials. This volume charts the processes and reasons for decriminalizing witchcraft. It also surveys the social role of witchcraft in European communities to the end of the 19th century.
Author: Bengt Ankarloo
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Published: 2005
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Karen Louise Jolly
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2002-03-12
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780812217865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovers the rise of "white magic" & Christian persecution of sorcery.
Author: Bengt Ankarloo
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1999-10-14
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780812217063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTopics include the decline of the witchcraft trials and the role of witchcraft and magic in enlightenment, romantic, and liberal thought.
Author: Bengt Ankerloo
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2002-08-01
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1441127437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fifteenth to eighteenth centuries was a period of witchcraft prosecutions throughout Europe and modern scholars have now devoted a huge amount of research to these episodes. This volume will attempt to bring this work together by summarising the history of the trials in a new way - according to the types of legal systems involved. Other topics covered will be the continued practical use made of magic, the elaboration of demonological theories about witchcraft and magic, and the further development of scientific interests in natural magic through the 'Neoplatonic' and 'Hermetic' period.Amongst the topics included here are Superstition and Belief in high and popular culture, the place of Medicine, Witchcraft survivals in art and literature, and the survival of Persecution.
Author: Willem de Blecourt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 1998-09-01
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0567396509
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWitchcraft continues to play a role in the modern European imagination and in its cultures. This book brings together studies of its most important modern manifestations. The volume includes a major new history of the origins and development of English 'Wicca', an account of satanic abuse mythology in the Twentieth Century and a survey of the continued existence of traditional witchcraft.
Author: Karen Jolly
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780485891034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween the age of St. Augustine and the sixteenth century reformations magic continued to be both a matter of popular practice and of learned inquiry. This volume deals with its use in such contexts as healing and divination and as an aspect of the knowledge of nature's occult virtues and secrets.>
Author: Frederick H. Cryer
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2001-06-01
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 0567151026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe oldest roots of the European concepts of witchcraft and magic lie in the Hebrew and other cultures of the ancient Near East and in the Celtic, Nordic and Germanic Societies of the North and West. The authors of this volume survey three crucial aspects of this earliest phase of development. These are the role of magical incantations and rituals against witchcraft in Mesopotamia in the last three millennia BC, the attitudes to witchcraft and magic in the Old Testament and in later Jewish tradition, and the beliefs and legends associated with trolldomor (witchcraft) in pre-Christian Scandanavia.
