Mary Parish wasn’t your ordinary seventeenth-century woman. She was a “cunning woman,” who spent her time in the realm of magic, interacting with fairies, hunting for buried treasures, and communicating with the spirit world, along with her partner, the young aristocrat Goodwin Wharton. Drawing largely from Goodwin’s personal journals, Frances Timbers reconstructs Mary’s life in this microhistory, and explores themes of class, gender, and relationships in seventeenth-century England. Mary’s story provides insight into magical beliefs and practices of early modern history, and sheds light on how class and gender affected everyday life.

Mary Parish wasn’t your ordinary seventeenth-century woman. She was a “cunning woman,” who spent her time in the realm of magic, interacting with fairies, hunting for buried treasures, and communicating with the spirit world, along with her partner, the young aristocrat Goodwin Wharton. Drawing largely from Goodwin’s personal journals, Frances Timbers reconstructs Mary’s life in this microhistory, and explores themes of class, gender, and relationships in seventeenth-century England. Mary’s story provides insight into magical beliefs and practices of early modern history, and sheds light on how class and gender affected everyday life.

Elizabeth Rose and her best friend Oliver are back with another magical adventure. While allowing her imagination to take their journey to new heights, they continue to travel to distant lands, make new friends, experience new and exciting adventures, all while becoming local hero's. Elizabeth Rose and Oliver are definitely in store for a night they will never forget.

"The Adventures of Little Mary" is an English version of the beloved German children's book "Was Marilenchen erlebte!" by author and illustrator Sibylle von Olfers. This enchanting tale follows the captivating journey of a young girl named Mary as she embarks on a series of magical adventures. one day, little Mary sees snowflakes falling outside her window, and they invite her on an incredible journey. Mary puts on warm clothes and follows the snowflakes into a magical snowy world. She meets friendly snowflake children and goes on a thrilling ride in a silver sleigh with Mr. Wind. They reach a beautiful snow kingdom with an ice castle and meet the Snow Queen and Princess, who are celebrating a birthday...The story captures the essence of childhood curiosity, imagination, and the joy of discovery.

Magical adventures of the little girl Mary and Unicorn Connie. A great example of how to be kind in any situation! Our dear readers will be happy to learn how Mary and Connie meet new friend and how they save him!What adventures await our friends ahead? - Whatever happens to them, they learn only the kindest deeds and friendship. Also in the Mary and Connie Series: Mary and Connie - Magical forest Mary and Connie - Magical party Mary and Connie - Magical land of unicorns Mary and Connie - Magical pony Mary and Connie - Magical berries Each story in the Mary and Connie series teaches your baby kindness, love, friendship, the ability to be independent and help other people.Chapter book readers will love this magical new series.

In early modern England, the practice of ritual or ceremonial magic - the attempted communication with angels and demons - both reinforced and subverted existing concepts of gender. The majority of male magicians acted from a position of control and command commensurate with their social position in a patriarchal society; other men, however, used the notion of magic to subvert gender ideals while still aiming to attain hegemony. Whilst women who claimed to perform magic were usually more submissive in their attempted dealings with the spirit world, some female practitioners employed magic to undermine the patriarchal culture and further their own agenda. Frances Timbers studies the practice of ritual magic in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries focusing especially on gender and sexual perspectives. Using the examples of well-known individuals who set themselves up as magicians (including John Dee, Simon Forman and William Lilly), as well as unpublished diaries and journals, literature and legal records, this book provides a unique analysis of early modern ceremonial magic from a gender perspective.

The author of Magic and Masculinity explores the history and development of magic and witchcraft in Western society. Broomsticks, cauldrons, familiars, and spells—magic and witchcraft conjure a vivid picture in our modern-day imagination. While much of our understanding is rooted in superstition and myth, the history of magic and witchcraft offers a window into the past. It illuminates the lives of ordinary people in the past and elucidates the fascinating pop culture of the premodern world. Blowing away folkloric cobwebs, this enlightening new history dispels many misconceptions surrounding witchcraft and magic that we still hold today. From Ancient Greece and Rome to the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, historian Frances Timbers details the impact of Christianity and popular culture in the construction of the figure of the “witch.” The development of demonology and ceremonial magic is combined with the West’s troubled past with magic and witchcraft to chart the birth of modern Wiccan and Neopagan movements in England and North America. Witchcraft is a metaphor for oppression in an age in which persecution is an everyday occurrence somewhere in the world. Fanaticism, intolerance, prejudice, authoritarianism, and religious and political ideologies are never attractive. Beware the witch hunter!