The Witchcraft Reader
Title | The Witchcraft Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Darren Oldridge |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 470 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780415214926 |
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.
The Salem Witch Trials Reader
Title | The Salem Witch Trials Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Frances Hill |
Publisher | Da Capo Press |
Pages | 442 |
Release | 2000-10-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 030680946X |
Contains primary source material.
The Witchcraft Sourcebook
Title | The Witchcraft Sourcebook PDF eBook |
Author | Brian P. Levack |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 363 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Magic |
ISBN | 0415195063 |
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.
The Witch of Hissing Hill
Title | The Witch of Hissing Hill PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Calhoun |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
After one of her black cats has a yellow kitten, a wicked old witch turns into a loving and good one.
A Witch's Garden
Title | A Witch's Garden PDF eBook |
Author | Miriam Young |
Publisher | |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Neighbors |
ISBN | 9780689303234 |
Convinced that Mrs. Matthews, the new neighbor, is a witch, twelve-year-old Jenny debates whether to expose her or exorcise her.
European Magic and Witchcraft
Title | European Magic and Witchcraft PDF eBook |
Author | Martha Rampton |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 481 |
Release | 2018-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1442634200 |
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.
The Witchcraft of Salem Village
Title | The Witchcraft of Salem Village PDF eBook |
Author | Shirley Jackson |
Publisher | Random House Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2011-02-02 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0307779882 |
Stories of magic, superstition, and witchcraft were strictly forbidden in the little town of Salem Village. But a group of young girls ignored those rules, spellbound by the tales told by a woman named Tituba. When questioned about their activities, the terrified girls set off a whirlwind of controversy as they accused townsperson after townsperson of being witches. Author Shirley Jackson examines in careful detail this horrifying true story of accusations, trials, and executions that shook a community to its foundations.