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A New History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics & Pagans: Sorcerers, Heretics and Pagans (Paperback)

by Jeffrey B. Russell (Author), Brooks Alexander (Author)
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  • Paperback: 216 pages
  • Publisher: Thames & Hudson; 2nd Revised edition edition (2 April 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0500286345
  • ISBN-13: 978-0500286340
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 17 x 1.5 cm
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For nearly thirty years, during which it has been continuously in print, Jeffrey Russellâs A History of Witchcraft has been the one authoritative concise illustrated history of witchcraft. Now, in collaboration with Brooks Alexander, this classic book has been fully revised with additional chapters accompanied by new illustrations. It now includes an analysis of the importance of the Internet and films in the dissemination of witchcraft today, and the potential tensions as a movement that was originally a closed, secretive cult becomes an open, recognized public religion.

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Jeffrey B. Russell is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Brooks Alexander is author of Witchcraft Goes Mainstream and has written numerous articles on witchcraft, neo-paganism and other new religious movements.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A breif history of witches and their persicution ,, 9 Dec 2000
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At first i found this book quite heavy going and hard to get into, however by the third chapter if found it quite interesting there are 175 pages and most of them have illustrations [94] to be presise. The tells of the horror and cruety of the witch craze which lasted for centuries. what i feel the arthur misses is why these innocent people were tortured and killed in the name of witchcraft [they were accussed of things like killing and eating infants and changing into animals and spoiling crops what the arthur calls dioabolical witchcraft, even though there is no evedence of this]. The witchcraft craze went on for centuries and the book tells of really sad and tragic case in this country and orthers. What this misses [i feel anyway is the reason why the witch caze happend in the first place he says that it was probaly to do with the fact that the poor people who suffing so much needed some to blame for their babies dieing [often the accussed were midwives] and thier crops failing and whatever else awful happend to them from what i can gather from other accounts it was probaly more politcal like encouge the poor to have some thing to fight amougst themselves about, and also the idear that wemen were becoming to powerful and it was a way of represing them thes points seemed to be missed in the book . To honest i think you be beter of paying a little more money and buying a book like the encyclopedia of witches and witchcrart by Rosemary Ellen Guilley.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A really good introduction to witchcraft - not just Wicca !, 27 Dec 2008
This book is a very, very good introduction to withcraft - and by withcraft I don't mean the Neopagan religion of Wicca - it is about witchcraft, or sorcery, from its simple origins as an aspect of fear and protection in less developed societies, using African magic as an example. It then goes on to explore how magic was viewed in pagan Europe, from the Greek Circe and Medea to the Norse seidr. Following this it examines the witch hunt of the early modern period - and comes to the conclusion, like most modern scholarly books, that Margaret Murray's hypothesis was wrong, and that there never was a pagan witch cult that the Church was actively persecuting. Finally it examines both modern Neopagan witchcraft (namely Wicca, it doesn't really mention Feri or Stregheria), and the sources that led to its evolution.

This book is wonderfully illustrated throughout, with many hard to find images within. A really good introduction to SERIOUS historical studying of both witchcraft worldwide and of Neopagan witchcraft religions in general.
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