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Author Bunn, Ivan

Title A Trial Of Witches : a Seventeenth Century Witchcraft Prosecution
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis Ltd., 1997

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Description 1 online resource (243 pages)
Contents Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Witchcrafts here resemble witchcrafts there; 2 The toad in the blanket; 3 The swouning sisters; 4 Lice of extraordinary bigness; 5 Wrinkled face, furrowed brow, and gobber tooth; 6 A man of bilious complexion and a pedant with power; 7 Of fear and drear; 8 An age of so much knowledge and confidence; 9 A matter of adipocere; Appendix; Notes; Index
Summary "An excellent microhistory ... sensational, the characters are strongly marked and include leading personalities in law, religion and medicine - a good story, well told from extensive and minute primary research"--Ronald Hutton
Notes Print version record
Subject Trials (Witchcraft) -- England -- Lowestoft
Witchcraft -- England -- History
Trials (Witchcraft)
Witchcraft
England
England -- Lowestoft
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Geis, Gilbert
ISBN 9780203992982
0203992989