Product Description
First edition.
Octavo, publisher's cloth, 260pp.
Illustrated with 4 plates.
A near fine copy with the original decorative jacket with only the very lightest shelf wear.
A fascinating work concerned mainly with witchcraft in Britian during the 16th and 17 centuries.
Sections Include: Belief and Opinion, Coven and Sabbat, Shape-Shifting and Familiar Spirits, The Fairies and the Dead, Maleficium, Murder, The Weather-Witch, Suspicion and Violence, The White Witch, Charms and Countercharms, etc.
etc.
A fascinating exploration of witchcraft from a time when belief in the subject was part of the general pattern of human thought.
Attempting to show, by means of extracts from contemporary writings and trial reports, what was thought and felt by all kinds of people during the witch-creed.
Written by Christina Hole, an award-winning British folklorist and author, who was described as "the leading authority on English folk customs and culture".
A superior copy.
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