The History of Witchcraft

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It examines in detail the growth of the ideological, cultural and legal concepts that eventually led to the carnage of the Witch Craze in the 16th and 17th centuries, which, it is estimated, may have claimed the lives of around 40,000 people. But Scot wasn’t lurking about in a hooded cape, looking for eyes of newts and toes of frogs to bewitch mortals. The perfect introduction to magic and the occult, it explores forms of divination from astrology and palmistry to the Tarot and runestones, mystical plants and potions such as mandrake, the presence of witchcraft in literature from Shakespeare's Macbeth to the Harry Potter series, and the ways in which magic has interacted with religion. Vemos que traduções levaram a perseguições; em especial quanto ao termo Satan (hebraico), Destruidor, dualidade judaico-cristã, negação da feitiçaria.

I think the book is certainly stronger for it and it helps to have the section to further the comparison between the various kinds of witchcraft that Russell is discussing. Unfortunately we cannot offer a refund on custom prints unless they are faulty or we have made a mistake.

What this misses [i feel anyway is the reason why the witch caze happend in the first place he says that it was probaly to do with the fact that the poor people who suffing so much needed some to blame for their babies dieing [often the accussed were midwives] and thier crops failing and whatever else awful happend to them from what i can gather from other accounts it was probaly more politcal like encouge the poor to have some thing to fight amougst themselves about, and also the idear também é muito voltado pro Wicca (esse mais que o grimório), e eu particularmente sinto falta de livros de bruxaria que falam além da Wicca, a bruxaria para além dela, especialmente porque a Wicca é uma religião neopagã contemporânea, e a bruxaria, historicamente, é uma prática que a antecede. Algumas vezes torna-se repetitivo e custa um pouco a avançar mas é tb de salientar que há uma descrição dos factos de forma idónea , sem julgamentos, com aspectos positivos e negativos da mesma questão .

Today, 435 years after it was published, the book sits on the shelf, silent, patient, having done the work its author did not want it to do. I also see reflections of it in many different ways, in particular how people continue to twist things that are either harmless in themselves, or inconveniant facts for others into things they are not, to suit the purposes of organisations and individuals. The volume is divided into four chronological parts, beginning with Antiquity and the Middle Ages in Part One, Early Modern witch hunts in Part Two, modern concepts of witchcraft in Part Three, and ending with an examination of witchcraft and the arts in Part Four. Well meaning but at times uninformed author who does not provide enough information for me to walk away fully satisfied from this book. Since most people who were accused – and often hanged – for it were impoverished women on the margins of society, he hoped to garner social empathy for them and other scapegoats.

Mostly narrated in Katharina’s voice, it’s moving and inventive, lifting the story out of the past and making it very immediate for the reader. A short, engrossing enough read, in which the most groundbreaking fact I learned is that England, the country that cut off the head of Ann Boleyn for witchcraft, had surprisingly much less witch hunt victims than Scotland, Italy, Germany, and Denmark. em algumas partes, ele é melhor do que o Grimório das Bruxas: o Grimório é mais extenso e mais completo, mas o foco dele é no Ocidente (muito euro-centrado), enquanto esse aqui tem uma linguagem mais simples e nem por isso peca nas referências e na pesquisa (proporcionalmente fala mais sobre a bruxaria em outras partes do mundo, mas é eurocentrico igual). Eu sempre tinha que rever/reler parte para ter certeza que ele tinha dado a ideia de um pensamento contrário algumas páginas antes e agora vinha dizer algo completamente diferente. Professor Gibson also tells the stories of the ‘witches’ – mostly women like Helena Scheuberin, Anny Sampson and Joan Wright, whose stories have too often been overshadowed by those of the powerful men, such as King James I and ‘Witchfinder General’ Matthew Hopkins, who hounded them.Granted, the copy read was published in 1980, paganism has changed significantly, and paganism changes from person to person.