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The History of Witchcraft

by Lois Martin - £9.99  Oldcastle Books Ltd (Pocket Essentials) (2007)
hardback    ISBN 13: 9781904048770 | ISBN 10: 1904048773

Witchcraft has recently undergone a huge popular revival, but does modern pagan witchcraft really bear any resemblance to its historical antecedants?
 
The witch in history was a very different creature from her modern counterpart, and this book sets out to explore the historical background to the European witchcraft phenomenon. It examines in detail the growth of the ideological, cultural, and legal concepts that eventually led to the carnage of the Witch Craze in the sixteenth and seventeen centuries, which may have claimed the lives of around 40,000 people.
 
For both Medieval and Reformation scholars alike the Devil and his works were a very real threat. Their conviction that witches were the servants of Satan led to the formation of perhaps one of the greatest conspiracy theories of all time: a belief that witches were working in league with the Devil in a diabolical plot against all Christendom.
 
Witches were transformed from poor deluded old women who rode out at night with the pagan goddess Diana into devil-worshipping heretics who became the focus of a centuries-long, Europe-wide campaign determined to seek out and destroy this evil wherever it was to be found, regardless of whether any of its victims were actually guily or not.

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