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Author Davies, Owen, 1969- author.

Title Murder, Magic, Madness : the Victorian Trials of Dove and the Wizard / Owen Davies
Published Oxon, OX : Routledge, 2014
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (262 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgements; Publishers' Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; 1 An inauspicious start in life; 2 A wizard's business; 3 Poisonous relations; 4 Dove in the dock; 5 Mad or bad?; 6 Fate; 7 Hunting Harrison down; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index
Summary In 1856 William Dove, a young tenant farmer, was tried and executed for the poisoning of his wife Harriet. The trial might have been a straightforward case of homicide, but because Dove became involved with Henry Harrison, a Leeds wizard, and demonstrated through his actions and words a strong belief in magic and the powers of the devil, considerable effort was made to establish whether these beliefs were symptomatic of insanity. It seems that Dove murdered his wife to hasten a prediction made by Harrison that he would remarry a more attractive and wealthy woman. Dove employed Harrison to p
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Dove, William, -1856 -- Trials, litigation, etc
Harrison, Henry, 1816-
SUBJECT Dove, William, -1856 fast
Harrison, Henry, 1816- fast
Subject Murder -- England -- History -- 19th century
Occultism -- Public opinion -- History -- 19th century
Witchcraft -- England -- History -- 19th century
Insanity (Law)
Crime and the press -- England -- History -- 19th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Crime and the press
Insanity (Law)
Murder
Occultism -- Public opinion
Witchcraft
England
Genre/Form History
Trials, litigation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317867562
1317867564
9781315835334
1315835339
0582894131
9780582894136
1281384658
9781281384652
9786611384654
6611384650
1408211599
9781408211595
Other Titles Victorian Trials of Dove and the Wizard