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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Alternative belief systems > Occult studies > Witchcraft

In Search of the New Forest Coven (Hardcover): Philip Heselton In Search of the New Forest Coven (Hardcover)
Philip Heselton
R730 Discovery Miles 7 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover): Julian Goodare, Rita Voltmer, Liv Helene Willumsen Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
Julian Goodare, Rita Voltmer, Liv Helene Willumsen
R4,406 Discovery Miles 44 060 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Demonology - the intellectual study of demons and their powers - contributed to the prosecution of thousands of witches. But how exactly did intellectual ideas relate to prosecutions? Recent scholarship has shown that some of the demonologists' concerns remained at an abstract intellectual level, while some of the judges' concerns reflected popular culture. This book brings demonology and witch-hunting back together, while placing both topics in their specific regional cultures. The book's chapters, each written by a leading scholar, cover most regions of Europe, from Scandinavia and Britain through to Germany, France and Switzerland, and Italy and Spain. By focusing on various intellectual levels of demonology, from sophisticated demonological thought to the development of specific demonological ideas and ideas within the witch trial environment, the book offers a thorough examination of the relationship between demonology and witch-hunting. Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe is essential reading for all students and researchers of the history of demonology, witch-hunting and early modern Europe.

Black Magic, Witchcraft and Occultism - Secret Cultural Practices in India (Hardcover): Sajal Nag Black Magic, Witchcraft and Occultism - Secret Cultural Practices in India (Hardcover)
Sajal Nag
R4,484 Discovery Miles 44 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Black magic, occult practices and witchcraft still evoke huge curiosity, interest and amazement in the minds of people. Although witchcraft in Europe has been a widely studied phenomenon, black magic and occult are not yet a popular theme of academic research in India, even though India is known as a land of magic, tantra and occult. The Indian State of Assam was historically feared as the land of Kamrup-Kamakhya, black magic, witch craft and occultic practices. It was where different Tantric cults as well as other occult practices thrived. This book is one of the rare collections where such practices are recorded and academically analyzed. It combines studies of all three practices of Black Magic, Witchcraft and Occult into a single book. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)

Witch Hunt - A Traveler's Guide to the Power & Persecution of the Witch (Hardcover): Kristen J Sollee Witch Hunt - A Traveler's Guide to the Power & Persecution of the Witch (Hardcover)
Kristen J Sollee
R722 Discovery Miles 7 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Eyes Guts Throat Bones (Hardcover): Moïra Fowley Eyes Guts Throat Bones (Hardcover)
Moïra Fowley
R522 R475 Discovery Miles 4 750 Save R47 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'ONE OF MY FAVOURITE STORYTELLERS. THESE TALES LINGERED, MORPHED, CONSUMED ME' KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE What will the end of the world look like? Will it be an old man slowly turned to gold, flowers raining from the sky, or a hole cut through the wire fencing that keeps the monsters out? Is it someone you love wearing your face, or a good old fashioned inter-dimensional summoning? Does it sound like a howl outside the window, or does it look like coming home? This startling and irresistibly witty collection from the phenomenally talented Moïra Fowley is an exploration of all our darkest impulses and deepest fears.

The Last Witches of England - A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition (Paperback): John Callow The Last Witches of England - A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition (Paperback)
John Callow
R384 Discovery Miles 3 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Fascinating and vivid." New Statesman "Thoroughly researched." The Spectator "Intriguing." BBC History Magazine "Vividly told." BBC History Revealed "A timely warning against persecution." Morning Star "Astute and thoughtful." History Today "An important work." All About History "Well-researched." The Tablet On the morning of Thursday 29 June 1682, a magpie came rasping, rapping and tapping at the window of a prosperous Devon merchant. Frightened by its appearance, his servants and members of his family had, within a matter of hours, convinced themselves that the bird was an emissary of the devil sent by witches to destroy the fabric of their lives. As the result of these allegations, three women of Bideford came to be forever defined as witches. A Secretary of State brushed aside their case and condemned them to the gallows; to hang as the last group of women to be executed in England for the crime. Yet, the hatred of their neighbours endured. For Bideford, it was said, was a place of witches. Though ‘pretty much worn away’ the belief in witchcraft still lingered on for more than a century after their deaths. In turn, ignored, reviled, and extinguished but never more than half-forgotten, it seems that the memory of these three women - and of their deeds and sufferings, both real and imagined – was transformed from canker to regret, and from regret into celebration in our own age. Indeed, their example was cited during the final Parliamentary debates, in 1951, that saw the last of the witchcraft acts repealed, and their names were chanted, as both inspiration and incantation, by the women beyond the wire at Greenham Common. In this book, John Callow explores this remarkable reversal of fate, and the remarkable tale of the Bideford Witches.

Laurie Cabot's Book of Shadows (Hardcover): Laurie Cabot, Penny Cabot, Christopher Penczak Laurie Cabot's Book of Shadows (Hardcover)
Laurie Cabot, Penny Cabot, Christopher Penczak
R1,312 R1,174 Discovery Miles 11 740 Save R138 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Natural Health - Your Complete Guide to Natural Remedies and Mindful Well-Being (Paperback): Marie D. Jones Natural Health - Your Complete Guide to Natural Remedies and Mindful Well-Being (Paperback)
Marie D. Jones
R730 R549 Discovery Miles 5 490 Save R181 (25%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Witchcraft Sourcebook - Second Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition): Brian P. Levack The Witchcraft Sourcebook - Second Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Brian P. Levack
R1,753 Discovery Miles 17 530 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The Witchcraft Sourcebook, now in its second edition, is a fascinating collection of documents that illustrates the development of ideas about witchcraft from ancient times to the eighteenth century. Many of the sources come from the period between 1400 and 1750, when more than 100,000 people - most of them women - were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe and colonial America. During these years the prominent stereotype of the witch as an evil magician and servant of Satan emerged. Catholics and Protestants alike feared that the Devil and his human confederates were destroying Christian society. Including trial records, demonological treatises and sermons, literary texts, narratives of demonic possession, and artistic depiction of witches, the documents reveal how contemporaries from various periods have perceived alleged witches and their activities. Brian P. Levack shows how notions of witchcraft have changed over time and considers the connection between gender and witchcraft and the nature of the witch's perceived power. This second edition includes an extended section on the witch trials in England, Scotland and New England, fully revised and updated introductions to the sources to include the latest scholarship and a short bibliography at the end of each introduction to guide students in their further reading. The Sourcebook provides students of the history of witchcraft with a broad range of sources, many of which have been translated into English for the first time, with commentary and background by one of the leading scholars in the field.

The Good Witch's Perpetual Planner (Paperback): Shawn Robbins, Charity Bedell The Good Witch's Perpetual Planner (Paperback)
Shawn Robbins, Charity Bedell 1
R381 R360 Discovery Miles 3 600 Save R21 (6%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This 12-month perpetual planner for good witches provides a place to plan and track everything from daily tasks and key rituals to the sacred holidays and solstices on the Wheel of the Year. It's chock-full of notes on holistic Wiccan magickal tips, spells, lore and recipes distilled from the popular `The Good Witch's Guide' by Shawn Robbins and Charity Bedell. And because it is perpetual you can jump in at any time of the year.

Coloring Book of Shadows - Season of the Witch: Spells for Samhain and Halloween (Hardcover): Amy Cesari Coloring Book of Shadows - Season of the Witch: Spells for Samhain and Halloween (Hardcover)
Amy Cesari
R1,129 Discovery Miles 11 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Story of the Salem Witch Trials (Hardcover, 3rd edition): Bryan LeBeau The Story of the Salem Witch Trials (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
Bryan LeBeau
R4,468 Discovery Miles 44 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

• This volume provides a combination of the major schools of thought on the Salem witch trials and incorporates the current scholarship on the subject. Events are presented in a narrative format that delivers the drama of the trials and leaves instructors free to explore specific topics of their choosing in greater depth. An analysis of key issues is provided at the end of each chapter. • The third edition has been significantly updated to include an expanded section on the European origins of witch hunts and an update and expand epilogue which discusses the witch hunts – real and imagined, historical and cultural – since 1692. Allowing students new to the phenomenon of the witch-hunts and trials to better understand their origins and impact upon the national psyche. • The bibliography has been substantially updated, an extensive list of internet resources, sources of primary documents, documentaries, movies, artwork, and resources to assist lecturers with using this book in their classrooms and students to further their studies.

Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Jonathan Barry, Owen Davies,... Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Jonathan Barry, Owen Davies, Cornelie Usborne
R3,214 Discovery Miles 32 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume is a collection based on the contributions to witchcraft studies of Willem de Blecourt, to whom it is dedicated, and who provides the opening chapter, setting out a methodological and conceptual agenda for the study of cultures of witchcraft (broadly defined) in Europe since the Middle Ages. It includes contributions from historians, anthropologists, literary scholars and folklorists who have collaborated closely with De Blecourt. Essays pick up some or all of the themes and approaches he pioneered, and apply them to cases which range in time and space across all the main regions of Europe since the thirteenth century until the present day. While some draw heavily on texts, others on archival sources, and others on field research, they all share a commitment to reconstructing the meaning and lived experience of witchcraft (and its related phenomena) to Europeans at all levels, respecting the many varieties and ambiguities in such meanings and experiences and resisting attempts to reduce them to master narratives or simple causal models. The chapter 'News from the Invisible World: The Publishing History of Tales of the Supernatural c.1660-1832' is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Marina Montesano Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Marina Montesano
R2,061 R1,501 Discovery Miles 15 010 Save R560 (27%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores the relationships between ancient witchcraft and its modern incarnation, and by doing so fills an important gap in the historiography. It is often noted that stories of witchcraft circulated in Greek and Latin classical texts, and that treatises dealing with witch-beliefs referenced them. Still, the role of humanistic culture and classical revival in the developing of the witch-hunts has not yet been fully researched. Marina Montesano examines Greek and Latin literature, revealing how particular features of ancient striges were carried into the Late Middle Ages, through the Renaissance and into the fifteenth century, when early Italian trials recall the myth of the strix common in ancient Latin sources and in popular memory. The final chapter also serves as a conclusion, to show how in Renaissance Italy and beyond, classical accounts of witchcraft ceased to be just stories, as they had formerly been, and were instead used to attest to the reality of witches' powers.

Hoodoo For Beginners - Working Magic Spells in Rootwork and Conjure with Roots, Herbs, Candles, and Oils (Hardcover): Angelie... Hoodoo For Beginners - Working Magic Spells in Rootwork and Conjure with Roots, Herbs, Candles, and Oils (Hardcover)
Angelie Belard
R721 R637 Discovery Miles 6 370 Save R84 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Witchcraft for Beginners - A Simple Introduction to Magic for the Modern Witch (Hardcover): Bridget Bishop Witchcraft for Beginners - A Simple Introduction to Magic for the Modern Witch (Hardcover)
Bridget Bishop
R471 R440 Discovery Miles 4 400 Save R31 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Witchcraft in Romania (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023): Ioan Pop-Curseu, Stefana Pop-Curseu Witchcraft in Romania (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Ioan Pop-Curseu, Stefana Pop-Curseu
R3,899 Discovery Miles 38 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides a history of witchcraft in the territories that compose contemporary Romania, with a focus on the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. The first part presents aspects of earthly justice, religious and secular, analysing the codes of law, trials and verdicts, and underlining the differences between Transylvania on one hand, and Moldavia and Wallachia on the other. The second part is concerned with divine justice, describing apocalyptic texts that talk about the pains of witches in hell, but also the ensembles of religious painting where, in vast compositions of the Last Judgment, various punishments for the sin of witchcraft are imagined.

Physical Evidence for Ritual Acts, Sorcery and Witchcraft in Christian Britain - A Feeling for Magic (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016):... Physical Evidence for Ritual Acts, Sorcery and Witchcraft in Christian Britain - A Feeling for Magic (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Ronald Hutton
R3,516 Discovery Miles 35 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume investigates the physical evidence for magic in medieval and modern Britain, including ritual mark, concealed objects, amulets, and magical equipment. The contributors are the current experts in each area of the subject, and show between them how ample the evidence is and how important it is for an understanding of history.

The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland (Hardcover): Julian Goodare, Martha McGill The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland (Hardcover)
Julian Goodare, Martha McGill
R2,495 Discovery Miles 24 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is about other worlds and the supernatural beings, from angels to fairies, that inhabited them. It is about divination, prophecy, visions and trances. And it is about the cultural, religious, political and social uses to which people in Scotland put these supernatural themes between 1500 and 1800. The supernatural consistently provided Scots with a way of understanding topics such as the natural environment, physical and emotional wellbeing, political events and visions of past and future. In exploring the early modern supernatural, the book has much to reveal about how men and women in this period thought about, debated and experienced the world around them. Comprising twelve chapters by an international range of scholars, The supernatural in early modern Scotland discusses both popular and elite understandings of the supernatural. -- .

Thinking with Demons - The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover, annotated edition): Stuart Clark Thinking with Demons - The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Stuart Clark
R4,129 Discovery Miles 41 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a work of fundamental importance for our understanding of the intellectual and cultural history of early modern Europe. Stuart Clark offers a new interpretation of the witchcraft beliefs of European intellectuals based on their publications in the field of demonology, and shows how these beliefs fitted rationally with many other views current in Europe between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Professor Clark is the first to explore the appeal of demonology to early modern intellectuals by looking at the books they published on the subject during this period. After examining the linguistic foundations of their writings, the author shows how the writers' ideas about witchcraft (and about magic) complemented their other intellectual commitments-in particular, their conceptions of nature, history, religion, and politics. The result is much more than a history of demonology. It is a survey of wider intellectual and ideological purposes, and underlines just how far the nature of rationality is dependent on its historical context.

Witch-Hunting in Scotland - Law, Politics and Religion (Paperback): Brian P. Levack Witch-Hunting in Scotland - Law, Politics and Religion (Paperback)
Brian P. Levack
R1,285 Discovery Miles 12 850 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Witch-Hunting in Scotland presents a fresh perspective on the trial and execution of the hundreds of women and men prosecuted for the crime of witchcraft, an offence that involved the alleged practice of maleficent magic and the worship of the devil, for inflicting harm on their neighbours and making pacts with the devil.

Brian P. Levack draws on law, politics and religion to explain the intensity of Scottish witch-hunting. Topics discussed include:

  • the distinctive features of the Scottish criminal justice system
  • the use of torture to extract confessions
  • the intersection of witch-hunting with local and national politics
  • the relationship between state-building and witch-hunting and the role of James VI
  • Scottish Calvinism and the determination of zealous Scottish clergy and magistrates to achieve a godly society.

This original survey combines broad interpretations of the rise and fall of Scottish witchcraft prosecutions with detailed case studies of specific witch-hunts. Witch-Hunting in Scotland makes fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in witchcraft or in the political, legal and religious history of the early modern period.

The Voices of Women in Witchcraft Trials - Northern Europe (Hardcover): Liv Helene Willumsen The Voices of Women in Witchcraft Trials - Northern Europe (Hardcover)
Liv Helene Willumsen
R4,519 Discovery Miles 45 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Women come to the fore in witchcraft trials as accused persons or as witnesses, and this book is a study of women's voices in these trials in eight countries around the North Sea: Spanish Netherlands, Northern Germany, Denmark, Scotland, England, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. From each country, three trials are chosen for close reading of courtroom discourse and the narratological approach enables various individuals to speak. Throughout the study, a choir of 24 voices of accused women are heard which reveal valuable insight into the field of mentalities and display both the individual experience of witchcraft accusation and the development of the trial. Particular attention is drawn to the accused women's confessions, which are interpreted as enforced narratives. The analyses of individual trials are also contextualized nationally and internationally by a frame of historical elements, and a systematic comparison between the countries shows strong similarities regarding the impact of specific ideas about witchcraft, use of pressure and torture, the turning point of the trial, and the verdict and sentence. This volume is an essential resource for all students and scholars interested in the history of witchcraft, witchcraft trials, transnationality, cultural exchanges, and gender in early modern Northern Europe.

Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Enlightenment (Hardcover): Michael R. Lynn Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Enlightenment (Hardcover)
Michael R. Lynn
R4,027 Discovery Miles 40 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Shows students of the history of witchcraft and magic that the beliefs of the seventeenth century continued through the Enlightenment, despite the attempts by philosophers to dismiss magic and its practice, into the nineteenth century. The volume is divided into three sections highlighting different definitions of magic including the concern over the non-material world as found in popular and elite practices, its relationship with science and medicine, and other forms of divination available to the general population. Providing students with a broad view of how magic was engaged with in the eighteenth century to inform their own studies. Explores the relationship between magic, science and medicine providing students with a good understanding of how the emerging fields of science and medicine came into conflict with popular belief in and practice of magic. Allowing students to see why magic still resonated with the general public into the nineteenth century.

Witchcraft and Whigs - The Life of Bishop Francis Hutchinson (1660-1739) (Paperback): Andrew Sneddon Witchcraft and Whigs - The Life of Bishop Francis Hutchinson (1660-1739) (Paperback)
Andrew Sneddon
R805 Discovery Miles 8 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This ground-breaking biography of Bishop Francis Hutchinson (1669-1739) provides a detailed and rare portrait of an early eighteenth century Irish bishop and witchcraft theorist. Drawing upon a wealth of printed primary source material, the book aims to increase our understanding of the eighteenth-century established clergy, both in England and Ireland. It illustrates how one of the main sceptical texts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Historical essay concerning witchcraft (1718), was constructed and how it fitted into the wider intellectual and literary context of the time, examining Hutchinson's views on contemporary debates concerning modern prophecy and miracles, demonic and Satanic intervention, the nature of Angels and hell, and astrology. This book will be of particular interest to academics and students of history of witchcraft, and the religious, political and social history of Britain and Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. -- .

What Witches Do - A Modern Coven Revealed (Paperback): Stewart Farrar What Witches Do - A Modern Coven Revealed (Paperback)
Stewart Farrar
R324 R277 Discovery Miles 2 770 Save R47 (15%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the living room of a London flat, a man stands naked and blindfolded. His wrists are bound together behind his back with red cord, which is looped round his neck and holds his arms up to make a triangle. A white cord is tied round his right ankle. What do witches do? What is it like to be a witch? Experience the process through the eyes of Stewart Farrar, author, journalist and witch, as he describes in detail in this new paperback edition for 2021 the activities and practices of modern-day witches. Principles of healing and clairvoyance as well as rituals, invocations and initial rites are covered in depth as Farrar accompanies the reader into the personal life of his own coven.

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