Witchcraft The History and Mythology Richard Marshall

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Witchcraft The History and Mythology - Richard Marshall

Witchcraft The History and Mythology explores the bizarre and often political terrain of the witch's universe, from classical greec legend, through the tragic era of witch-mania, to the present-day practioniners of Wicca.
This lavishly illustrated volume covers all continents and more then two millennia of history, literature and legend.

Of course you know who Merlin was. And you know about Cinderella's fairy godmother. But did you know that Merlin was enchanted by a witch named Vivian and that Cinderlla's godmother is a red calf in the story's Scottish version? Along with these legendary characters, we have certified real witches such as Margaret Pearson, convicted of killing a horse and sentenced to four days in the pillory; and less-fortunate Elizabeth Clark, who, accused by Witch Finder General Matthew Hopkins of being visited by familiars, was hanged. The famous Salem trials are here, along with Australia's aboriginal bone-pointing that causes the quarry to sicken and waste away. What about witches of today? We have England's Violet Firth, who battled psychical tomcats in the 1920s...King Faria, the water witch who helped people during the 1977 drought in California's Marin County...Vera Stringer, whose poltergeist burned her young son's teddy bear. Altogether, it's a scholarly and exhilarating potpourri of fact and fiction, abetted by some of the most far out photos and illustrations (many in color) you'll ever see in a book on this wild subject. Bibliography and index.

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