Materials Toward a History of Witchcraft, Volume 1

Materials Toward a History of Witchcraft, Volume 1
Author: Arthur C. Howland
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2017-01-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1512817481

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Materials Toward a History of Witchcraft, Volume 3

Materials Toward a History of Witchcraft, Volume 3
Author: Henry Charles Lea
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2017-01-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1512820598

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Materials Toward a History of Witchcraft, Volume 2

Materials Toward a History of Witchcraft, Volume 2
Author: Henry Charles Lea
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 608
Release: 2017-01-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1512820571

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs

Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs
Author: Scott Cunningham
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1985
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9780875421223

Hoping to meet that special someone? Wear a sprig of maidenhair fern. Having problems with your cash flow? Burn cloves as incense to attract riches. Want to enhance your psychic abilities? Brew up some dandelion root tea. In days gone by our ancestors lived in harmony with the earth. They knew which plants could heal and which ones could kill. They also knew that plants harbored magical powers, forces that could be harnessed and directed to fulfill a need -- anything from protecting a house to finding true love. Magical herbalism is the use of these powers to create positive changes. This revised and updated fifteenth anniversary edition contains the folklore and magical properties of over 400 herbs. Far from concentrating on esoteric, unobtainable plants, many of those mentioned within are old friends. The magical properties of onions, cashews, apples, rice, lettuce -- as well as dill, basil, fennel, garlic, and parsley are described. Extensive tables, a cross-reference of folk names, glossary, and annotated bibliography make this a comprehensive and valuable guide to the practice of magical herbalism. Book jacket.

European Witch Trials

European Witch Trials
Author: Richard Kieckhefer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1976-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780520029675

In popular tradition witches were either practitioners of magic or people who were objectionable in some way, but for early European courts witches were heretics and worshippers of the Devil. This study concentrates on the period between 1300 and 1500 when ideas about witchcraft were being formed and witch-hunting was gathering momentum. It is concerned with distinguishing between the popular and learned ideas of witchcraft. The author has developed his own methodology for distinguishing popular from learned concepts, which provides adequate substantiation for the acceptance of some documents and the rejection of others.

Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe

Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
Author: Jonathan Barry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1998-03-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521638753

This important collection brings together both established figures and new researchers to offer fresh perspectives on the ever-controversial subject of the history of witchcraft. Using Keith Thomas's Religion and the Decline of Magic as a starting point, the contributors explore the changes of the last twenty-five years in the understanding of early modern witchcraft, and suggest new approaches, especially concerning the cultural dimensions of the subject. Witchcraft cases must be understood as power struggles, over gender and ideology as well as social relationships, with a crucial role played by alternative representations. Witchcraft was always a contested idea, never fully established in early modern culture but much harder to dislodge than has usually been assumed. The essays are European in scope, with examples from Germany, France, and the Spanish expansion into the New World, as well as a strong core of English material.