'Witchcraft' re-issues eight volumes originally published between 1929 and 1977 and sheds light on the history, anthropological, religious and mythological contexts of witchcraft in the UK and Europe. Some volumes focus on the witch-hunts and trials of early modern Europe.
'Witchcraft' re-issues eight volumes originally published between 1929 and 1977 and sheds light on the history, anthropological, religious and mytholo...
Though it is clearly an exceptionally important part of popular culture, witchcraft has generated a variety of often contradictory interpretations, starting from widely differing premises about the nature of witchcraft, its social role and the importance of higher theology as well as more popular beliefs. This work offers a conspectus of historical work on witchcraft in Europe, and shows how many trends converged to form the figure of the witch, and varied from one part of Europe to another.
Though it is clearly an exceptionally important part of popular culture, witchcraft has generated a variety of often contradictory interpretations,...
