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Storia notturna
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Carlo Ginzburg |
From the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, men and women in Europe accused of witchcraft told how they were taken to the Sabbath—the nocturnal gathering before the devil at which they took par… |
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The Last Witch of Langenburg
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Thomas Robisheaux |
The Last Witch of Langenburg tells the tale of Anna Schmieg, a cantankerous miller’s wife charged with witchcraft in 1672 after the mysterious death of a neighbor. The neighbor, a village woman who h… |
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Witchcraft in Europe, 1100-1700
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Alan Charles Kors |
This text contains highlights from such influential texts as the Malleus Maleficarum, a first-person account of witch accusations and torture, and various edicts from witch-hating popes. In addition,… |
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The Salazar documents
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Gustav Henningsen |
"Early in the seventeenth century the Western Pyrenees were riven by one of the greatest witch panics in history. The mountain villagers were in uproar when villagers' children reported how they were… |
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The witch
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Ronald Hutton |
"The witch came to prominence--and often a painful death--in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep. In this landmark book, Ronald Hutton trac… |
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The astronomer & the witch
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Ulinka Rublack |
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. A defender of Copernicus's sun-centered universe, he famously discove… |
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Realizing the Witch
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Richard Baxstrom |
Benjamin Christensen?s Häxan (The Witch, 1922) stands as a singular film within the history of cinema. Deftly weaving contemporary scientific analysis and powerfully staged historical scenes of satan… |
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The European witch-craze of the 16th and 17th centuries
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H. R. Trevor-Roper |
witch hunts in europe between 1450-1700 |
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The History of Witchcraft
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Lois Martin |
Witchcraft has recently been undergoing a huge popular revival, but does modern pagan witchcraft really bear any resemblance to its historical antecedents? The witch in history was a very different c… |
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