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	Publisher: Oxford University Press
	Author Malcolm Gaskill
	Language: English
	Pages: 145 (B/W Illustrations)
	Cover: PAPERBACK
	7x4.5 inch
	Weight 150 gm
	Edition: 2010
	ISBN: 9780199236954
	HCF910

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About the Book From childhood most of us develop a sense of a witch: a malign person, usually an old woman. Historically, too, we recognize witch-hunting as a feature of pre-modern societies. But why do witches still feature so heavily in our cultures and consciousness? In this Very Short Introduction Malcolm Gaskill challenges all of this, and argues that what we think we know is, in fact, wrong. Telling stories, delving into court records, and challenging myths, Gaskill examines the witch-hunts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and explores the reinvention of witchcraft-as fiction, and metaphor.

About the Author Malcolm Gaskill is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans (2020).

Preface When the historian Lucien Febvre said that 'a book on witches is a book which will be read' he wasn't trying to cajole a publisher, although I have myself used his words this way. I hope he's right. It's certainly a subject that has interested my family, friends, and students over the last two decades unless they've all been spectacularly polite. The point of studying witchcraft can be hard to explain beyond the superficial allure of the mysterious and macabre. An old college friend, now a Privy Councillor, is as amused and baffled as ever that I'm still marking sites of witch-accusations on maps with a red pen. So that is my purpose: to put succinctly into writing everything that I've struggled to convey verbally. Witchcraft is an undeniably strange subject, at once familiar and arcane, and insidious too. It just won't leave me alone, however hard I try to move on; colleagues have found the same. With any luck I can gather my thoughts here, drawing a line under my investigation into witches until next time, of course. For a solitary occupation, writing involves a lot of people. I want to thank Luciana O'Flaherty who commissioned the book, and Ronald Hutton who put her up to it. Ronald kindly commented on a complete draft, as did Stuart Clark, Brian Levack, and Willem de Blécourt.

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