[PDF.97sq] Witches and Neighbours: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft

Witches and Neighbours: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft

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 | #16970057 in Books |  1996-03-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | File type: PDF | 512 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| The actual records of witch hunts speak|By Brian Griffith|Briggs gives one of the sanest, most carefully documented accounts to date of Europe's witch hunts. Tracing local records across many nations focuses the locale, duration, and scope of the main witch-hunting episodes. Briggs studies what kinds of people were accused of evil, how the whole notion of evil varied, and how t| |"In this learned and meticulously researched book, Robin Briggs lays to rest many of the modern myths about the witch craze, without in any way diminishing its horror... Briggs skilfully shows how the myths of witchcraft were linked with fundamental human expe

Witchcraft has always intrigued the imagination, sparking visions of Macbeths hags, complete with heathland and bubbling cauldrons. But throughout European history, particularly from the 14th- to the 17th-century, ordinary people were tried and put to death for witchcraft, often in a brutal and grotesque manner. So who were the witches? What were their practises? Who believed in them? What was their place in society? Why were they so feared? How were they accused, tried ...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Witches and Neighbours: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft   |  Robin Briggs.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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