By Charlotte-Rose Millar
ISBN-10: 1472485491
ISBN-13: 9781472485496
This ebook represents the 1st systematic learn of the function of the satan in English witchcraft pamphlets for the total interval of state-sanctioned witchcraft prosecutions (1563-1735). It offers a rereading of English witchcraft, one that strikes clear of an older historiography which underplays the position of the satan in English witchcraft and as a substitute highlights the the most important function that the satan, usually within the type of a well-known spirit, took in English witchcraft trust. one of many key ways that this e-book explores the function of the satan is thru feelings. tales of witches have been made of a fancy net of emotionally implicated accusers, sufferers, witnesses, and meant perpetrators. They display a number emotional reviews that don't simply stem from malefic witchcraft but additionally, and basically, from a witch’s hyperlinks with the satan. This publication, then, has major targets. First, to signify that English witchcraft pamphlets problem our knowing of English witchcraft as a predominantly non-diabolical crime, and moment, to spotlight how witchcraft narratives emphasised feelings because the basic motivation for witchcraft acts and accusations.
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