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- 99488078 contributor B8817825.
- 99488078 created "1999.".
- 99488078 date "1999".
- 99488078 date "1999.".
- 99488078 dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- 99488078 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-329) and index.".
- 99488078 description "Machine generated contents note: 1 EDUCATED ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE POPULAR BELIEF IN WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC -- The denial of witchcraft and the defence of property 2 -- Witchcraft: an anachronism in the 'Age of Enlightenment' 7 -- Continuing religious interest in witchcraft -- Possession, religion and spiritualism 18 -- Witchcraft and insanity 39 -- Reforming the popular mind 44 -- The legal debate over the Witchcraft and Vagrancy Acts 6i 2 WITCHCRAFT AND POPULAR JUSTICE 79 -- The decline of witchcraft prosecutions 79 -- Authority's role in the persecution and prosecution of witches 83 -- Swimming: the popular adoption of a continental practice 86 -- The continued resort to figures of authority and their response ioo -- Witch-mobbing as an act offolk justice Io6 -- Witch-mobbing, the parish constable and the coming of the -- new police Iog -- 3 WITCHCRAFT, MAGIC AND POPULAR LITERATURE 120 -- Literacy and literature 121 -- Broadsides 124 -- Chapbooks 130 -- Prophecy 142 -- The witch and the Devil 147 -- Almanacs I53 -- Anti-superstition literature I57 -- 4 THE WITCH 167 -- Witches,folklore and belief I68 -- Characteristics of the archetypal witch 174 -- Fairies, flying and shape-shifting 184 -- The witch in court I93 -- Origins of accusations 201 -- Bewitchment and social space 207 -- 5 OCCULT PRACTITIONERS 214 -- Cunning-folk 214 -- Astrologers 229 -- Astrologers of London 236 -- Fortune-tellers 246 -- The reinvention offortune-telling 250 -- Gypsies 258 -- Fortune-telling and the First World War 266 -- 6 DECLINING BELIEF IN WITCHCRAFT 27I -- Measuring declining belief 272 -- Cultural change and the retiring witch 278 -- CONCLUSION 294.".
- 99488078 extent "xiii, 337 p. ;".
- 99488078 identifier "0719056551".
- 99488078 identifier "071905656X (pbk.)".
- 99488078 identifier 99488078.html.
- 99488078 identifier 99488078.html.
- 99488078 identifier 99488078.html.
- 99488078 issued "1999".
- 99488078 issued "1999.".
- 99488078 language "eng".
- 99488078 publisher "Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the USA by S. Martin's Press,".
- 99488078 spatial "Great Britain".
- 99488078 subject "133.4/3/0941 21".
- 99488078 subject "BF1581 .D29 1999".
- 99488078 subject "Magic Great Britain History.".
- 99488078 subject "Witchcraft Great Britain History.".
- 99488078 tableOfContents "Machine generated contents note: 1 EDUCATED ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE POPULAR BELIEF IN WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC -- The denial of witchcraft and the defence of property 2 -- Witchcraft: an anachronism in the 'Age of Enlightenment' 7 -- Continuing religious interest in witchcraft -- Possession, religion and spiritualism 18 -- Witchcraft and insanity 39 -- Reforming the popular mind 44 -- The legal debate over the Witchcraft and Vagrancy Acts 6i 2 WITCHCRAFT AND POPULAR JUSTICE 79 -- The decline of witchcraft prosecutions 79 -- Authority's role in the persecution and prosecution of witches 83 -- Swimming: the popular adoption of a continental practice 86 -- The continued resort to figures of authority and their response ioo -- Witch-mobbing as an act offolk justice Io6 -- Witch-mobbing, the parish constable and the coming of the -- new police Iog -- 3 WITCHCRAFT, MAGIC AND POPULAR LITERATURE 120 -- Literacy and literature 121 -- Broadsides 124 -- Chapbooks 130 -- Prophecy 142 -- The witch and the Devil 147 -- Almanacs I53 -- Anti-superstition literature I57 -- 4 THE WITCH 167 -- Witches,folklore and belief I68 -- Characteristics of the archetypal witch 174 -- Fairies, flying and shape-shifting 184 -- The witch in court I93 -- Origins of accusations 201 -- Bewitchment and social space 207 -- 5 OCCULT PRACTITIONERS 214 -- Cunning-folk 214 -- Astrologers 229 -- Astrologers of London 236 -- Fortune-tellers 246 -- The reinvention offortune-telling 250 -- Gypsies 258 -- Fortune-telling and the First World War 266 -- 6 DECLINING BELIEF IN WITCHCRAFT 27I -- Measuring declining belief 272 -- Cultural change and the retiring witch 278 -- CONCLUSION 294.".
- 99488078 title "Witchcraft, magic, and culture, 1736-1951 / Owen Davies.".
- 99488078 type "text".