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- Author: Wallace Notestein
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2016
- Pages: 314
- ISBN-10: 1539179494
- ISBN-13: 9781539179498
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 (The Esoteric Library) (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu
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It has been said by a thoughtful writer that the subject of witchcraft has hardly received that place which it deserves in the history of opinions. There has been, of course, a reason for this neglect--the fact that the belief in witchcraft is no longer existent among intelligent people and that its history, in consequence, seems to possess rather an antiquarian than a living interest. No one can tell the story of the witch trials of sixteenth and seventeenth century England without digging up a buried past, and the process of exhumation is not always pleasant. Yet the study of English witchcraft is more than an unsightly exposure of a forgotten superstition. There were few aspects of sixteenth and seventeenth century life that were not affected by the ugly belief. It is quite impossible to grasp the social conditions, it is impossible to understand the opinions, fears, and hopes of the men and women who lived in Elizabethan and Stuart England, without some knowledge of the part played in that age by witchcraft. It was a matter that concerned all classes from the royal household to the ignorant denizens of country villages.
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- Author: Wallace Notestein
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2016
- Pages: 314
- ISBN-10: 1539179494
- ISBN-13: 9781539179498
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
It has been said by a thoughtful writer that the subject of witchcraft has hardly received that place which it deserves in the history of opinions. There has been, of course, a reason for this neglect--the fact that the belief in witchcraft is no longer existent among intelligent people and that its history, in consequence, seems to possess rather an antiquarian than a living interest. No one can tell the story of the witch trials of sixteenth and seventeenth century England without digging up a buried past, and the process of exhumation is not always pleasant. Yet the study of English witchcraft is more than an unsightly exposure of a forgotten superstition. There were few aspects of sixteenth and seventeenth century life that were not affected by the ugly belief. It is quite impossible to grasp the social conditions, it is impossible to understand the opinions, fears, and hopes of the men and women who lived in Elizabethan and Stuart England, without some knowledge of the part played in that age by witchcraft. It was a matter that concerned all classes from the royal household to the ignorant denizens of country villages.
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