Indian Witchcraft
Author | : R. N. Saletore |
Publisher | : Abhinav Publications |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1981-11 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780391024809 |
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Author | : R. N. Saletore |
Publisher | : Abhinav Publications |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1981-11 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780391024809 |
Author | : Charles Alva Hoyt |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780809315444 |
In this new edition Charles Alva Hoyt updates his research and offers fresh interpretations of the fascinating history of witches. Among his "Second Thoughts" are cautious examinations of the possible implications of the space-time continuum of Einstein's special theory of relativity and the "Many Worlds" interpretation of quantum mechanics to the observed phenomena of witchcraft. Hoyt, a descendant of Susanna Martin who was hanged as a witch for walking through a Salem rain without getting her feet wet, carefully sketches the background and history of this least understood of supernatural phenomena as it has evolved from antiquity to the present. He identifies seven distinct schools of witchcraft--orthodox, skeptic, anthropological, psychological, pharmacological, transcendental, and occult--and thoroughly analyzes each of them. He explores witchcraft's increased influence resulting from the New Testament's personification of evil as Satan. Especially enlightening are the ways that the nonwitch world has perceived and treated witches. Witches were often victims at the lower end of the social order, scapegoats for the misfortunes of neighbors, town officials, and family members. Many of them suffered decapitation, hanging, burning and torture, dismemberment, and removal of skin with red-hot pincers for their alleged witchcraft. Dietrich Flade, Rector of the University of Trier, for example, was burned on 18 September 1589 after having been "mercifully and Christianly strangled." He had been found guilty of causing "plagues of hailstones and snails."
Author | : Pamela J. Stewart |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780521004732 |
This book combines two classic topics in social anthropology in a new synthesis: the study of witchcraft and sorcery and the study of rumors and gossip. First, it shows how rumor and gossip are invariably important as catalysts for accusations of witchcraft and sorcery. Second, it demonstrates the role of rumor and gossip in the genesis of social and political violence, as in the case of both peasant rebellions and witch-hunts. Examples supporting the argument are drawn from Africa, Europe, India, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia.
Author | : Judika Illes |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 824 |
Release | : 2015-05-05 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0062372025 |
The author of the popular Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells and Encyclopedia of Spirits now explores the exciting magic and power of the mystical world of witches in Encyclopedia of Witchcraft, a comprehensive reference book that covers everything you ever wanted to know about this fascinating topic. Folklore expert Judika Illes introduces readers to mythic witches, modern witches, sacred goddess witches, even demon witches, male and female witches, witches from all over the globe. She takes readers on an enchanting tour through witchcraft’s history, mythology, and folklore, where they will discover a miscellany of facts including magic spells, rituals, potions, recipes, celebrations, traditions, and much more.
Author | : Raisa Maria Toivo |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780754664543 |
With a sharp eye for detail, Raisa Maria Toivo explores the gender implications of the complex system of household management and public representation in which seventeenth-century Finnish women and men negotiated their positions. From specific case studies of Finnish peasant women, Toivo broadens her narrative to include historiographical discussion on the history of witchcraft, on women's and gender history and on early modern social history, shedding new light on each theme.
Author | : Jonathan Bryan Durrant |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004160930 |
Using the example of Eichstatt, this book challenges current witchcraft historiography by arguing that the gender of the witch-suspect was a product of the interrogation process and that the stable communities affected by persecution did not collude in its escalation.
Author | : Brian P. Levack |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Demoniac possession |
ISBN | : 9780815310266 |
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Justin Winsor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Witchcraft |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Samuel G. Drake |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1869 |
Genre | : Witchcraft |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andrew Sneddon |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2017-10-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526130718 |
This ground-breaking biography of Bishop Francis Hutchinson (1669-1739) provides a detailed and rare portrait of an early eighteenth century Irish bishop and witchcraft theorist. Drawing upon a wealth of printed primary source material, the book aims to increase our understanding of the eighteenth-century established clergy, both in England and Ireland. It illustrates how one of the main sceptical texts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Historical essay concerning witchcraft (1718), was constructed and how it fitted into the wider intellectual and literary context of the time, examining Hutchinson’s views on contemporary debates concerning modern prophecy and miracles, demonic and Satanic intervention, the nature of Angels and hell, and astrology. This book will be of particular interest to academics and students in the areas of history of witchcraft, and the religious, political and social history of Britain and Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.