The witch in history is very different from the image in Harry Potter, Wicked, or the modern day Pagan. A Brief History of Witchcraft sets out to explore how the witch phenomenon began in medieval Europe and how it has continued to haunt us for more than 500 years. Perfect for anyone intrigued by the clandestine, contentious role of witchcraft in history, this book reveals the mysterious layers of characters, scandals, and trials that made witchcraft a timeless universal fascination.

A Brief History of Witchcraft

History

Martin, Lois

Americas

Running Press

This book sets out to explore the historical background to the European witchcraft phenomenon.

The History of Witchcraft

Chartwell Books

Witchcraft has recently been undergoing a huge popular revival, but does modern pagan witchcraft really bear any resemblance to its historical antecedents? This book explores the historical background to the European witchcraft phenomenon.

Europe

Oldcastle Books Ltd

Witchcraft has been undergoing a huge popular revival, but does modern pagan witchcraft really bear any resemblance to its historical antecedents? This guide explores the historical background to the European witchcraft phenomenon. For both Medieval and Reformation scholars alike the Devil and all his works were a very real threat. Their conviction that witches were the servants of Satan led to the formation of perhaps one of the greatest conspiracy theories of all time: a belief that witches were working in league with the Devil in a diabolical plot against all Christendom. Witches were transformed from poor deluded old women who rode out at night with the pagan goddess Diana into devil-worshipping heretics who became the focus of a centuries-long, Europe-wide campaign determined to seek out and destroy this evil wherever it was to be found, regardless of whether any of its victims were actually guilty or not.

The History of Witchcraft (Pocket Essentials)

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Pocket Essentials

Witchcraft has been undergoing a huge popular revival, but does modern pagan witchcraft really bear any resemblance to its historical antecedents? This guide explores the historical background to the European witchcraft phenomenon. For both Medieval and Reformation scholars alike the Devil and all his works were a very real threat. Their conviction that witches were the servants of Satan led to the formation of perhaps one of the greatest conspiracy theories of all time: a belief that witches were working in league with the Devil in a diabolical plot against all Christendom. Witches were transformed from poor deluded old women who rode out at night with the pagan goddess Diana into devil-worshipping heretics who became the focus of a centuries-long, Europe-wide campaign determined to seek out and destroy this evil wherever it was to be found, regardless of whether any of its victims were actually guilty or not.

The History of Witchcraft (Pocket Essential series)

Overtaken by Insanity: Two Sisters Lives Are Burdened by Elder Sister's Mental Illness

Literature & Fiction

Killifer, Louise

Genre Fiction

Ewings Publishing LLC

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