Description
The witch in history used to be a very different creature from her up to date counterpart. Lois Martin sets out to explore the historical background to the European witchcraft phenomenon, examining in detail the expansion of the ideological, cutural and legal concepts that at last led to the carnage of the Witch Craze within the 16th and 17th centuries which, it’s estimated, can have claimed the lives of 40,000 people. A great gap-bridger between lay interest and the educational history of one of the crucial oldest practices within the Western world.
