The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition

ISBN-13: 9781788314398 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 352 str.

John Callow

Opis

Uncovers the forgotten history of the Bideford Witches, the last group of women in England executed for witchcraft, and charts changing attitudes towards them over time, from revulsion to celebration.

Recenzje

Callow's intriguing book is both a case study of the Bideford witch trail and an examination of how superstition prevailed in a time of increasing rationality. Callow's fascinating and vivid unpicking of the English Salem is also an account of the birth pangs of the modern age. Michael Prodger New Statesman

Spis treści

IllustrationsAcknowledgementsA Note on Dating & TerminologyPrologue: The Magpie at the WindowChapter One: Fortune My FoeChapter Two: England's Golden BayChapter Three: An Underground Religion Chapter Four: The Cat, the Pig and the PoppetChapter Five: The Stolen Apple & a Farthing's Worth of TobaccoChapter Six: A Fine Gentleman Dressed All in BlackChapter Seven: The Discourse of the Sleepy ChimneyChapter Eight: The Politics of DeathChapter Nine: At the House of the White Witch Chapter Ten: Where are the Witches? The Crafting of Memory and SurvivalEndnotesBibliography

O autorze

John Callow is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Suffolk, UK, who has written widely on early modern witchcraft, politics and popular culture. He is the author of The Making of King James II (2000) and Embracing the Darkness (2005, I.B. Tauris). He has appeared on the BBC Radio 4 documentary It Must be Witchcraft, and the series on the Salem Witches on the Discovery Channel.