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Witches and witchcraft
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Texts
George
Gifford
A
Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts (1593); ed. S. F. Davies. (pb) £5.00
Lawrence
Normand and
Gareth Roberts, eds.
Witchcraft in Early
Modern Scotland: James VI's
"Demonology"
and the North Berwick Witches. (hb) £28.50
Reference
Rossell Hope
Robbins
The Encyclopedia
of Witchcraft and Demonology. (hb) £9.50
Secondary
works
Christina
Hole
Witchcraft in England; illustrated
by Mervyn Peake.
(hb) £4.50
Pennethorne
Hughes
Witchcraft. (hb) £7.00
Witchcraft.
(pb) £3.50
Max
Marwick, ed.
Witchcraft
and Sorcery: Selected Readings. £2.50
P. G.
Maxwell-Stuart
Witchcraft:
A History. (hb) £6.50
Witch
Hunters: Professional Prickers, Unwitchers and Witch Finders of the
Renaissance.
(hb) £10.00
Darren
Oldridge, ed.
The
Witchcraft Reader. (pb) £12.50
Roy and
Ursula Radford
West
Country Witchcraft. (pb) £8.00
Elliot
Rose
A
Razor for a Goat: A Discussion of Certain Problems in the History of
Witchcraft
and Diabolism.
(pb) £6.00
Geoffrey
Scarre
Witchcraft
and Magic in 16th and 17th Century Europe. (pb) £7.00
Books & journals
containing related material
Modern fiction
Dinah
Lampitt
To Sleep
No More. (pb) £3.00
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that
are currently in stock. Because of the nature of the material, many of
these books are largely post-medieval in emphasis.
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"Non-magic
people (more commonly known as Muggles) were particularly afraid of
magic in medieval times, but not very good at recognising it. On the
rare occasion that they did catch a real witch or wizard, burning had
no effect whatsoever. The witch or wizard would perform a basic
Flame-Freezing Charm and then pretend to shriek with pain while
enjoying a gentle, tickling sensation. Indeed, Wendelin the Wierd
enjoyed being burnt so much that she allowed herself to be caught no
fewer than forty-seven times in various disguises.” J. K. Rowling
"The great witch-hunt can in fact be taken as a supreme example of a
massive killing of innocent people by a bureaucracy acting in
accordance with beliefs which, unknown or rejected in earlier
centuries, had come to be taken for granted, as self-evident truths. It
illustrates vividly the power of the human imagination to build up a
stereotype and its reluctance to question the validity of a stereotype
once it is generally accepted." Norman Cohn, Europe's
Inner Demons.
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