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WITCHCRAFT - MARION GIBSON KARTONIERT (TB)

Salem  King James VI  Malleus Maleficarum. The world of witch hunts and witch trials sounds
antiquated  relics of an unenlightened and brutal age. However  ' witch hunt'  is heard
often in the present-day media  and the misogyny it is rooted in is all too familiar today. A
woman was prosecuted under the 1735 Witchcraft Act as recently as 1944.   This book uses
thirteen significant trials to explore the history of witchcraft and witch hunts. As well as
investigating some of the most famous trials from the middle ages to the 18th century  it takes
us in new and surprising directions. It shows us how witchcraft was decriminalised in the 18th
century  only to be reimagined by the 1780s Romantic radicals. We will learn how it evolved
from being seen as a threat to Christianity to perceived as gendered persecution  and how
trials against chieftains in Africa stoked anger against colonial rule.    Significantly  the
book tells the stories of the victims - women  such as Helena Scheuberin and Joan Wright -
whose stories have too often been overshadowed by those of the powerful men  such as King James
VI and I and “Witchfinder General” Matthew Hopkins  who hounded them.    While this will be a
history of witchcraft  the subject cannot be consigned to the history books. Hundreds of people
mostly women  are tried and killed as witches every year in Africa. ‘WITCH HUNT!’ is as common
in our language today as ever it was  and witches are still on trial across the world.    

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