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Author Gibson, Marion

Title Early Modern Witches : Witchcraft Cases in Contemporary Writing
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis Ltd., 2000

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Description 1 online resource (353 pages)
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Editions used; Editorial practice; Sources for students; Introduction; 1 The Examination and Confession of certaine Wytches (1566); 2 The Examination of John Walsh (1566); 3 A Rehearsall both straung and true (1579); 4 A Detection of damnable driftes (1579); 5 Richard Galis, A brief treatise (1579); 6 W.W., A true and just Recorde (1582); 7 The severall factes of Witch-crafte (1585); 8 The Apprehension and confession of three notorious Witches (1589); 9 A Most Wicked worke of a wretched Witch (1592)
10 'A memoriall of certaine most notorious witches' (1595)11 'The severall practises of Johane Harrison and her daughter' (1606); 12 The Witches of Northamptonshire (1612); 13 Thomas Potts, The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches (1612); 14 Witches Apprehended (1613); 15 The Wonderful Discovery of the Witchcrafts of Margaret and Phillip Flower (1619); 16 Henry Goodcole, The wonderfull discoverie of Elizabeth Sawyer, a Witch (1621); Bibliography and further
Summary A collection of fifteen English witchcraft cases, some of which have never appeared in print before. It combines the original spelling editions of popular texts with scholarly annotation and will prove an essential resource to withcraft scholars
Notes English
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Subject Witchcraft -- England -- History -- 16th century -- Sources
Witchcraft -- England -- History -- 17th century -- Sources
Witchcraft
England
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203992302
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9781134607648
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9781280224744
9786610224746
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