Witch Craze, Lyndal Roper

Witch Craze, Lyndal RoperNew Paperback A powerful account of witches, crones, and the societies that make them. From the gruesome ogress in Hansel and Gretel to the hags at the sabbath in Faust, the witch has been a powerful figure of the Western imagination. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries thousands of women confessed to being witches of making pacts with the Devil, causing babies to sicken, and killing animals and cropsand were put to death. This book is a

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This Granta edition of Volume 5 contains the unexpurgated text for the first time

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By April 1865

Armistice in 1918 presented the British government with an enormous challenge - how could the British army that had been built up on an unprecedented scale during the war be cut back to a peacetime size and how could millions of soldiers be returned to civilian life

By sifting fact from fiction in one of the most beloved texts of our culture

The narrative is an allegory

republished in English for the first time in two decades

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