The Witchcraft Reader

Author : Darren Oldridge
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415214926
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Witchcraft Reader written by Darren Oldridge and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The excellent reader offers a selection of the best historical writing on witchcraft, exploring how belief in witchcraft began, and the social and context in which this belief flourished.

Author : Marion Gibson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134624859
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Witchcraft written by Marion Gibson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original study of witchcraft, Gibson explores the stories told by and about witches and their 'victims' through trial records, early news books, pamphlets and fascinating personal accounts. The author discusses the issues surrounding the interpretation of original historical sources and demonstrates that their representations of witchcraft are far from straight forward or reliable. Innovative and thought-provoking, this book sheds new light on early modern people's responses to witches and on the sometimes bizarre flexibility of the human imagination.

Author : Shannon Knudsen
Publisher : Millbrook Press
ISBN 13 : 0761372555
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alice Ray and the Salem Witch Trials written by Shannon Knudsen and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1692, four young girls from the Puritan town of Salem Village, Massachusetts, began acting strangely. They threw fits and cried out. They claimed that the spirits of some townspeople were hurting them. These townspeople were accused of witchcraft and put on trial. The punishment was hanging. When a poor woman and her five-year-old daughter were named as witches, Alice Ray knew it couldn’t be true. She believed they were innocent. But what could a young girl like Alice do to help? Would she be brave enough to stand up for what she knew was right? In the back of this book, you’ll find a script and instructions for putting on a reader’s theater performance of this adventure. At our companion website—www.lerneresource.com—you can download additional copies of the script plus sound effects, background images, and more ideas that will help make your reader’s theater performance a success.

Author : Brian P. Levack
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415195063
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Witchcraft Sourcebook written by Brian P. Levack and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of trial records, laws, treatises, sermons, speeches, woodcuttings, paintings and literary texts illustrates how contemporaries from various periods have perceived alleged witches and their activities.

Author : Miriam Young
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780689303234
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Witch's Garden written by Miriam Young and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Convinced that Mrs. Matthews, the new neighbor, is a witch, twelve-year-old Jenny debates whether to expose her or exorcise her.

Author : Frances Hill
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 030680946X
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Salem Witch Trials Reader written by Frances Hill and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2000-10-19 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains primary source material.

Author : Deborah Hautzig
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0679887385
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Witch Goes to School written by Deborah Hautzig and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1998-08-04 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Witch wants to go to school just like her friends, but her mother thinks she should stay home and learn from her witchy aunts. Mother Witch finally agrees to let Little Witch go, but only if she promises to be very, very bad. It's a wild ride on a broomstick that kids won't soon forget! The third book in the popular Little Witch series, Little Witch Goes to School has all the mixed-up magic and quirky humor kids have come to love in the first two books.

Author : Mary Calhoun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Witch of Hissing Hill written by Mary Calhoun and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After one of her black cats has a yellow kitten, a wicked old witch turns into a loving and good one.

Author : Martha Rampton
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442634200
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Magic and Witchcraft written by Martha Rampton and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic, witches, and demons have drawn interest and fear throughout human history. In this comprehensive primary source reader, Martha Rampton traces the history of our fascination with magic and witchcraft from the first through to the seventeenth century. In over 80 readings presented chronologically, Rampton demonstrates how understandings of and reactions toward magic changed and developed over time, and how these ideas were influenced by various factors such as religion, science, and law. The wide-ranging texts emphasize social history and include early Merovingian law codes, the Picatrix, Lombard's Sentences, The Golden Legend, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. By presenting a full spectrum of source types including hagiography, law codes, literature, and handbooks, this collection provides readers with a broad view of how magic was understood through the medieval and early modern eras. Rampton's introduction to the volume is a passionate appeal to students to use tolerance, imagination, and empathy when travelling back in time. The introductions to individual readings are deliberately minimal, providing just enough context so that students can hear medieval voices for themselves.

Author : Owen Davies
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526137267
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the witch trials written by Owen Davies and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book looks at aspects of the continuation of witchcraft and magic in Europe from the last of the secular and ecclesiastical trials during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, through to the nineteenth century. It provides a brief outline of witch trials in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Finland. By the second half of the seventeenth century, as the witch trials reached their climax in Sweden, belief in the interventionist powers of the Devil had become a major preoccupation of the educated classes. Having acknowledged the slight possibility of real possession by the Devil, Benito Feijoo threw himself wholeheartedly into his real objective: to expose the falseness of the majority of the possessed. The book is concerned with accusations of magic, which were formalised as denunciations heard by the Inquisition of the Archdiocese of Capua, a city twelve miles north of Naples, during the first half of the eighteenth century. One aspect of the study of witchcraft and magic, which has not yet been absorbed into the main stream of literature on the subject, is the archaeological record of the subject. As a part of the increasing interest in 'popular' culture, historians have become more conscious of the presence of witchcraft after the witch trials. The aftermath of the major witch trials in Dalarna, Sweden, demonstrates how the authorities began the awkward process of divorcing themselves from popular concerns and beliefs regarding witchcraft.