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Irish Witchcraft and Demonology (Paperback)
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Irish Witchcraft and Demonology (Paperback)
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Loot Price R455
Discovery Miles 4 550
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IT is said, though we cannot vouch for the accuracy of the
statement, that in a certain book on the natural history of Ireland
there occurs a remarkable and oft-quoted chapter on Snakes--the
said chapter consisting of the words, "There are no snakes in
Ireland." In the opinion of most people at the present day a book
on Witchcraft in Ireland would be of equal length and similarly
worded, except for the inclusion of the Kyteler case in the town of
Kilkenny in the first half of the fourteenth century. For, with the
exception of that classic incident, modern writers seem to hold
that the witch-cult never found a home in Ireland as it did
elsewhere. For example, the article on "Witchcraft" in the latest
edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica mentions England and
Scotland, then passes on to the Continent, and altogether ignores
this country; and this is, in general, the attitude adopted by
writers on the subject. In view of this it seems very strange that
no one has attempted to show why the Green Isle was so especially
favoured above the rest of the civilised world, or how it was that
it alone escaped the contracting of a disease that not for years
but for centuries had infected Europe to the core. As it happens
they may spare themselves the labour of seeking for an explanation
of Ireland's exemption, for we hope to show that the belief in
witchcraft reached the country, and took a fairly firm hold there,
though by no means to the extent that it did in Scotland and
England."
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