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There have been numerous attempts to explain the witch-hunting mania that swept the Western world between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Nigel Cawthorne vividly brings the hysteria to life with this powerful examination of actual witchcraft cases, and provides a compelling description of what it was like to live in a society where everyone believed in witches. Using contemporaneous court reports, depositions, letters, confessions and detailed written accounts, the author builds a terrifying picture of a world beset by the collective mania that was the Witch Hunt.
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Shawn Holmes
reviewed Witch Hunt: History of a Persecution - Nigel Cawthorne - Hardcover on October 04, 2011
Witch Hunt
If you ever wanted a can't-put-this-book-down history of witches and witchhunts, then this is the book for you. Even the cover screams out in vibrant red colour, forcing you to look at the subject. The author does a nice job here. Even though I know he writes many books focused on sensational disaster-type subjects, he has it down pat.
He takes the reader through the persecution of witches in different countries and how those specific areas handled the tortures and stake burnings. He will even note where certain cities and city-states would refuse to persecute witches, even when the country or nation was doing it wholeheartedly. There is a chapter on Father Grandier, who was burned at the stake when he dared challenge Richelieu. The information on the entire history of witch hysteria relating to profit-making by the persecutors is astonishing. We look upon the history of witches as something in the past, but it really came about due to people (mostly women) who lived outside the norm or challenged the political system.
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