Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 6: The Twentieth Century
- ISBN-10
- 0485890062
- ISBN-13
- 9780485890068
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 244
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999-01-01
- Publisher
- A&C Black
- Authors
- Ronald Hutton, Jean La Fontaine, Willem De Blécourt
Description
Witchcraft continues to play a role in the modern European imagination and in its cultures. This book brings together studies of its most important modern manifestations. The volume includes a major new history of the origins and development of English 'Wicca', an account of satanic abuse mythology in the Twentieth Century and a survey of the continued existence of traditional witchcraft.
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- 1999-01-01
- 257 pages
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- 1999-10-14
- 260 pages
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