A scary, clever novel about witchy women that takes in big themes: mental and physical illness, grief, racism, nationalism. Learn about the people who inspired the pagan revival and how their work in literature and magic rekindled the fires of the sabbats across Europe and the New World today. If you don’t believe me look it up yourself, the best power of the all is not the power from Satan, because that is all you’re getting your power from is the evil one, the best power is the knowledge of the Bible walk in the righteous path with the Lord, spend eternity in paradise, change your ways. I thought I was going to read about how women were unfairly judged as “witches”, when they were only the midwife or the healer/doctor of the village. Recommended if you are looking for a VERY general overview of European witchcraft from the witch trials to Margaret Murray.

Muita informação incorreta e simplista, mostrando muito o ponto de vista dele e de até julgar o que é “certo e o que é errado”. It isn't particularly in depth, but it's still informative and a good place to start if this is a subject you're interested in. eu acabei lembrando de estudo feito explicando pq que existem muito mais homens serial killers do que mulheres: ao contrário de homens que externam coisas, mulheres, por serem oprimidas desde sempre, tendem a internalizar seus problemas. Im very interested in witch books, one that are the oldest, true real ancient and ancestral knowledge! It shows us how witchcraft was decriminalised in the 18th century, only to be reimagined by the 1780s Romantic radicals.

Apesar de conhecer de maneira isolada parte dos fatos que eles apresentam, vê-los lado a lado no livro abriu muito meus olhos. Leave the old crusty dying exhausted existence behind and become fully alive by learning how to be fully dead to our own destructive ways. Paperback has been read and has light wear from handling but still clean and bright with no creasing to spine. However, ‘witch hunt’ is heard often in the present-day media, and the misogyny it is rooted in is all too familiar today.

Dust Jackets are not guaranteed and when still present, they will have various degrees of tear and damage. I didn't get much of a sense of Things Developing as we kept jumping about between centuries covering mostly similar stuff. A short, engrossing enough read, in which the most groundbreaking fact I learned is that England, the country that cut off the head of Ann Boleyn for witchcraft, had surprisingly much less witch hunt victims than Scotland, Italy, Germany, and Denmark.

All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. Katharina is an illiterate widow, known by her neighbors for her herbal remedies and the success of her children, including her eldest, Johannes, who is the Imperial Mathematician and renowned author of the laws of planetary motion. Lots of great background here if you are already super-interested in the topic, but I can't see it winning any new converts to the field. We offer also brings a real emotional perspective to his work, as he isn't afraid to comment on the barbarism and cruelty Central to The craze.

The book now includes an analysis of the importance of the Internet and films in the dissemination of witchcraft and the potential tensions as a movement that was originally a closed, secretive, initiatory cult becomes an open, public religion. Overall this book was very interesting but took a more theoretical stance which often led to overexplinatio.A perfect gap-bridger between lay interest and the academic history of one of the oldest practices in the Western world.

At places in the text, the author's bias shines out, which makes it hard to take the whole text without a grain of salt. Witchcraft has been undergoing a huge popular revival, but does modern pagan witchcraft really bear any resemblance to its historical antecedents? Mesmo assim o livro oferece uma boa base para entender o período, e a edição de capa dura e cheia de ilustrações é linda. Embora este livro, História da Bruxaria: Feiticeiras, hereges e pagãs, de Jeffrey Burton Russell e Brooks Alexsander, tenha um texto difícil de se acompanhar, os temas, conforme vão se aproximando dos dias atuais vão ficando mais interessantes. Somente quando uma nova visão de mundo se impôs, os céticos puderam encontrar um sólido terreno intelectual onde se firmar e repelir a bruxaria.

The author takes pains to dispel the popular mythology about how the witch hunts were all the results of the catholic church and I realized the impossibility of knowing every subject at any level of depth beyond a cursory one. He also hoped to dispel the common belief in magic tricks performed on stage before gasping audiences. 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. Instead, she found a complex, shifting world of theories and suspicions, as gripping as any detective novel.