Author : Rosemary Guiley
Publisher : Checkmark Books
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 20,71 MB
Release : 1999-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780816038480
Identifies famous witches, explains terms dealing with witchcraft, and describes related churches and organizations
Author : Mensah Adinkrah
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1782385614
Witchcraft violence is a feature of many contemporary African societies. In Ghana, belief in witchcraft and the malignant activities of putative witches is prevalent. Purported witches are blamed for all manner of adversities including inexplicable illnesses and untimely deaths. As in other historical periods and other societies, in contemporary Ghana, alleged witches are typically female, elderly, poor, and marginalized. Childhood socialization in homes and schools, exposure to mass media, and other institutional mechanisms ensure that witchcraft beliefs are transmitted across generations and entrenched over time. This book provides a detailed account of Ghanaian witchcraft beliefs and practices and their role in fueling violent attacks on alleged witches by aggrieved individuals and vigilante groups.
Author : Gemma Hollman
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 15,7 MB
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0750993502
'An important and timely book.' - Philippa Gregory Joan of Navarre was the richest woman in the land, at a time when war-torn England was penniless. Eleanor Cobham was the wife of a weak king's uncle – and her husband was about to fall from grace. Jacquetta Woodville was a personal enemy of Warwick the Kingmaker, who was about to take his revenge. Elizabeth Woodville was the widowed mother of a child king, fighting Richard III for her children's lives. In Royal Witches, Gemma Hollman explores the lives of these four unique women, looking at how rumours of witchcraft brought them to their knees in a time when superstition and suspicion was rife.
Author : Raymond Buckland
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 36,76 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0875420508
"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
Author : Ivan Bunn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 18,90 MB
Release : 2005-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1134696337
In 1662, Amy Denny and Rose Cullender were accused of witchcraft, and, in one of the most important of such cases in England, stood trial and were hanged in Bury St Edmunds. A Trial of Witches is a complete account of this sensational trial and an analysis of the court procedures, and the larger social, cultural and political concerns of the period. In a critique of the official process, the book details how the erroneous conclusions of the trial were achieved. The authors consider the key participants in the case, including the judge and medical witness, their institutional importance, their part in the fate of the women and their future careers. Through detailed research of primary sources, the authors explore the important implications of this case for the understanding of hysteria, group mentality, social forces and the witchcraft phenomenon as a whole.
Author : Jack Fritscher
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 29,3 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780299203047
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.
Author : Jeremy Kingston
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN :
Explores the origins and history of witchcraft, differences between black and white magic, and reasons for the growing popularity of witchcraft today.
Author : Jean La Fontaine
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,72 MB
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1785330861
Devil worship, black magic, and witchcraft have long captivated anthropologists as well as the general public. In this volume, Jean La Fontaine explores the intersection of expert and lay understandings of evil and the cultural forms that evil assumes. The chapters touch on public scares about devil-worship, misconceptions about human sacrifice and the use of body parts in healing practices, and mistaken accusations of children practicing witchcraft. Together, these cases demonstrate that comparison is a powerful method of cultural understanding, but warns of the dangers and mistaken conclusions that untrained ideas about other ways of life can lead to.
Author : Pauline C. Bartel
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,58 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Witchcraft
ISBN : 9780878331833
This in-depth study of the history of witches and witchcraft begins with the first mention of witches 3,000 years ago, and follows the history up to modern-day Wiccans, exploring the origins of witchcraft, the Inquisition and Salem Witch Trials, and witches in popular culture.
Author : Gerald B. Gardner
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 10,2 MB
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 160925189X
Thought to be the father of modern witchcraft, Gerald Gardner published The Meaning of Witchcraft in 1959, not long after laws punishing witches were repealed. It was the first sympathetic book written from the point of view of a practicing witch. The Meaning of Witchcraft is an invaluable source book for witches today. Chapters include: Witch's Memories and Beliefs, The Stone Age Origins of Witchcraft, Druidism and the Aryan Celts, Magic Thinking, Curious Beliefs about Witches, Signs and Symbols, The Black Mass, Some Allegations Examined. The Meaning of Witchcraft is a record of witches' roots-and a tribute to a founding pioneer with the courage to set that record straight.
