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Witches - James I and the English Witch Hunts (Paperback)
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Witches - James I and the English Witch Hunts (Paperback)
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Loot Price R364
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September 1613. In Belvoir Castle, the heir of one of England's
great noble families falls suddenly and dangerously ill. His body
is 'tormented' with violent convulsions. Within a few short weeks
he will suffer an excruciating death. Soon the whole family will be
stricken with the same terrifying symptoms. The second son, the
last male of the line, will not survive. It is said witches are to
blame. And so the Earl of Rutland's sons will not be the last to
die. Witches traces the dramatic events which unfolded at one of
England's oldest and most spectacular castles four hundred years
ago. The case is among those which constitute the European witch
craze of the 15th-18th centuries, when suspected witches were
burned, hanged, or tortured by the thousand. Like those other
cases, it is a tale of superstition, the darkest limits of the
human imagination and, ultimately, injustice - a reminder of how
paranoia and hysteria can create an environment in which
nonconformism spells death. But as Tracy Borman reveals here, it is
not quite typical. The most powerful and Machiavellian figure of
the Jacobean court had a vested interest in events at Belvoir.He
would mastermind a conspiracy that has remained hidden for
centuries.
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