Somehow this was spun into obstruction of justice. In Witch Hunt, Gregg Jarrett uncovers the bureaucratic malfeasance and malicious politicization of our country’s justice system. The law was weaponized for partisan purposes.
For witches are not just haunting figures of the past; the witch is also a liberatory icon and identity of the present. This paperback edition includes a new afterword by the author and an updated travel resources section.
In this revised edition, first published under the title of Witch, Wicce, Mother Goose, Robert Thurston explores the events of the witch hunts and the social and psychological factors which caused them.
Abbey is not looking forward to moving with her parents into a run-down old house in Massachusetts, where a teenage girl lived 300 years ago until she was hanged for being a witch.
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This book is a defense of the rule of law, which came under sustained attack by high government officials who abused their positions of power to subvert our system of justice and undermine the democratic process.
This book will make essential reading for all those interested in the history and anthropology of witchcraft and magic. In this major new book, Wolfgang Behringer surveys the phenomenon of witchcraft past and present.
The book: Examines why witchcraft prosecutions took place, how many trials and victims there were, and why witch-hunting eventually came to an end. Explores the beliefs of both educated and illiterate people regarding witchcraft.
Coverage of Switzerland is patchy, but see Laura Stokes, Demons of Urban Reform: Early European Witch Trials and ... Witchcraft is set in a wider system of popular belief by David Gentilcore, From Bishop to Witch: The System of the ...
Well, there wouldn't have been many people using it at this time of night anyway. ... and pulleys which lowered shreds of raffia onto young heads, the skeleton, at rest now, which would spring to its feet at the approach of a carriage.