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Witch Craze - Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany (Paperback, New Ed)
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Witch Craze - Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany (Paperback, New Ed)
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A powerful account of witches, crones, and the societies that make
them From the gruesome ogress in Hansel and Gretel to the hags at
the sabbath in Faust, the witch has been a powerful figure of the
Western imagination. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
thousands of women confessed to being witches-of making pacts with
the Devil, causing babies to sicken, and killing animals and
crops-and were put to death. This book is a gripping account of the
pursuit, interrogation, torture, and burning of witches during this
period and beyond. Drawing on hundreds of original trial
transcripts and other rare sources in four areas of Southern
Germany, where most of the witches were executed, Lyndal Roper
paints a vivid picture of their lives, families, and tribulations.
She also explores the psychology of witch-hunting, explaining why
it was mostly older women that were the victims of witch crazes,
why they confessed to crimes, and how the depiction of witches in
art and literature has influenced the characterization of elderly
women in our own culture.
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