Tag Archives: Witchcraft
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When politicians started calling the coronavirus an
“invisible enemy”, it was obvious that the rhetoric accompanying the pandemic
was moving from science to magic. Both Donald Trump and Boris Johnson...
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With three villagers hanged on charges of witchcraft, nearby churches were set on a mission to discourage their parishioners from falling into the darker arts of witchcraft via annual sermons during t...
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Bernard Rosenthal, the editor of Records of the Salem-Witch Hunt, sheds light on America's most famous witch trials...
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David Collins, editor of The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West, examines Jacob Cornelisz's clas...
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Michael D. Bailey, a contributor to The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West, explores the legacy ...
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First published in 1486–7, the Malleus Maleficarum (Latin for “The Hammer of Witches”) is the standard medieval text on witchcraft. A famous treatise, it attempted to systematically define and...
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The Ideas section of the Boston Globe recently interviewed our own Christopher Mackay. Mackay translated the only accurate version of the highly influential medieval witch-hunting manual – Malleus...
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When politicians started calling the coronavirus an
“invisible enemy”, it was...
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With three villagers hanged on charges of witchcraft, nearby churches were set on a mission to disco...
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First published in 1486–7, the Malleus Maleficarum (Latin for “The Hammer of...
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The Ideas section of the Boston Globe recently interviewed our own Christopher Mackay....
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