Explore books about witchcraft in the UK and Ireland, including witch trials, accusations, folk magic, historical belief and supernatural tradition. The collection ranges from local histories to wider studies of witchcraft and its place in British and Irish culture.
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Cover unavailableA Bewitched Land: Ireland's Witches
Bob Curran examines Ireland’s relatively few witchcraft prosecutions alongside the stories of people branded witches, sorcerers or wise women. The book recounts four notable cases, including Dame Alice Kyteler’s 14th-century Kilkenny proceedings, the Islandmagee accusations,…
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Cover unavailableA People Bewitched: Witchcraft and Magic in Nineteenth-Century Somerset
A People Bewitched examines belief in witchcraft and magic across 19th-century Somerset, where accusations could attach blame for illness, death and misfortune affecting people and animals. Davies presents these beliefs as part of local social…
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Cover unavailableAccused: British Witches throughout History
Accused: British Witches throughout History presents the stories of 11 women accused of witchcraft across the British Isles. Willow Winsham traces these cases from 14th-century Ireland to 20th-century Hampshire, asking why accusations arose, who pursued…
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Cover unavailableAn Abundance of Witches
An Abundance of Witches examines the great Scottish witch-hunt, concentrating on the intense outbreak of persecution between 1658 and 1662. P. G. Maxwell-Stuart places these events within a Scotland shaped by political upheaval, religious conviction…
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Cover unavailableAtlas of Paranormal Places
Atlas of Paranormal Places surveys more than 50 locations linked to ghost stories, witchcraft, sacred traditions, unexplained events and cryptid lore. Its worldwide selection ranges from the Chase Vault in Barbados and Charleville Castle in…
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