Dictionary of Witchcraft. - PICKERING, DAVID
KORTE INHOUD
This acclaimed A-Z dictionary is a comprehensive and highly readable guide to the world of witchcraft, revealing the historical reality behind the popular stereotypes of old hags, broomsticks and black cats. Complete with biographies of notorious witches and descriptions of their covens, familiars, spells and practices, it also contains colourful accounts of infamous trials and all the associated paraphernalia of witch-hunting, torture and persecution across Europe and colonial America. A first-class source book for the historian, folklorist and casual reader alike, it shows in vivid and bloody detail how witchcraft hysteria swept the western world in the post-medieval period and has continued to resurface into modern times.
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1998Uitgever: Brockhampton Press294 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1860198503ISBN-13: 9781860198502Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original publisher's purple paper-covered boards, pictorial dustjacket, thick 8vo: xviij, 294pp., foreword, map. Fine copy. London, Brockhampton Press [Hodder PLC Group]. 1998 [Auteur: PICKERING, DAVID] [Jaar: 1998] [Titel: Dictionary of Witchcraft.]
