Reading Witchcraft

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Marion Gibson

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Hardback

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Exploring the stories told by and about "witches" and their "victims", this text questions what can be recovered from their trial records, early news books, pamphlets and personal accounts. In her wide-ranging selection of original sources, Marion Gibson seeks to discover the truthfulness of stories of witchcraft. Who told them and why? How were they recorded? And how might they have been distorted or stereotyped? This book looks closely at these legal documents and printed pamphlets and shows that their representations of witchcraft are far from straightforward. Even the simplest story can mask a complex creative process which sometimes led to the deaths of innocent people. We are left with a record of the power of the human imagination.

Author Biography:

Marion Gibson is Lecturer at the University of Exeter

Release date Australia

May 6th, 1999

Author

Marion Gibson

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

256

Dimensions

156x234x25

ISBN-13

9780415206457

Product ID

5794009

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