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The Last Witches of England A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition

Name: The Last Witches of England
Author: John Callow

Auteur: John Callow

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: John Callow

Engels
Hardcover
9781788314398
07 oktober 2021
352 pagina's

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Fascinating and vivid. New Statesman Thoroughly researched. The Spectator Intriguing. BBC History Magazine Vividly told. BBC History Revealed A timely warning against persecution. Morning Star Astute and thoughtful. History Today An important work. All About History Well-researched. The Tablet On the morning of Thursday 29 June 1682, a magpie came rasping, rapping and tapping at the window of a prosperous Devon merchant. Frightened by its appearance, his servants and members of his family had, within a matter of hours, convinced themselves that the bird was an emissary of the devil sent by witches to destroy the fabric of their lives. As the result of these allegations, three women of Bideford came to be forever defined as witches. A Secretary of State brushed aside their case and condemned them to the gallows; to hang as the last group of women to be executed in England for the crime. Yet, the hatred of their neighbours endured. For Bideford, it was said, was a place of witches. Though 'pretty much worn away' the belief in witchcraft still lingered on for more than a century after their deaths. In turn, ignored, reviled, and extinguished but never more than half-forgotten, it seems that the memory of these three women - and of their deeds and sufferings, both real and imagined - was transformed from canker to regret, and from regret into celebration in our own age. Indeed, their example was cited during the final Parliamentary debates, in 1951, that saw the last of the witchcraft acts repealed, and their names were chanted, as both inspiration and incantation, by the women beyond the wire at Greenham Common. In this book, John Callow explores this remarkable reversal of fate, and the remarkable tale of the Bideford Witches.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 07 oktober 2021
Aantal pagina's: 352
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Hoofdauteur: John Callow
Hoofduitgeverij: Bloomsbury Academic

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Product breedte: 156 mm
Product lengte: 234 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 156 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 234 mm
Verpakking lengte: 234 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 680 g

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