This collection of pamphlets describes fifteen English witchcraft cases in detail, vividly recreating events to give the reader the illusion of actually being present at witchcraft accusations, trials and hangings. But how much are we victims of literary manipulation by these texts? The pamphlets are presented in annotated format, to allow the reader to decide. Some of the texts appear in print for the first time in three centuries, whilst others are newly edited to give a clearer picture of sources.
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'Gibson is to be congratulated on bringing together these materials together, and on the skill, scholarship and insights she has brought to bear on them.' - James Sharpe, Continuity and Change, vol. 17 2, 2002
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Marion Gibson is Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter and her research interests are in witchcraft, research interests are in witchcraft, the occult and biography. Her previous publications include Reading Witchcraft (Routledge, 1999).
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The first witchcraft pamphlet to be published begins a long tradition of telling simple stories, complicated by the nature of their sources and by what storyteller and reader believe about what is told. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
examinat saith, examinate sayeth, shee sayeth, examinate saith, shee this examinate, whereupon shee, examinates mother, gaol examination, shee knoweth, yeare aforesaid, queries atturney, shee further saith, shee sayde, examinate sayth, examinates wife, saide spirite, shee saith, most wicked worke, voluntarie confession, shee confesseth, unto foales, whereupon this examinate, quadragesimo quinto, saide grace, being demaunded Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Countie of Lancaster, James Device, Elizabeth Device, Thomas Potts, Forrest of Pendle, Alizon Device, Brian Darcey, Anne Whittle, Elizabeth Sawyer, Anne Redferne, Anne Chattox, Master Lister, Alice Nutter, Annis Herd, Ales Newman, Robert Nutter, Jane Southworth, Pendle Hill, Ellen Bierley, Elizabeth Stile, Ales Hunt, Isabel Robey, Master Enger, Jane Bulcock, Ales Manfielde New!
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The first witchcraft pamphlet to be published begins a long tradition of telling simple stories, complicated by the nature of their sources and by what storyteller and reader believe about what is told. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
examinat saith, examinate sayeth, shee sayeth, examinate saith, shee this examinate, whereupon shee, examinates mother, gaol examination, shee knoweth, yeare aforesaid, queries atturney, shee further saith, shee sayde, examinate sayth, examinates wife, saide spirite, shee saith, most wicked worke, voluntarie confession, shee confesseth, unto foales, whereupon this examinate, quadragesimo quinto, saide grace, being demaunded Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Countie of Lancaster, James Device, Elizabeth Device, Thomas Potts, Forrest of Pendle, Alizon Device, Brian Darcey, Anne Whittle, Elizabeth Sawyer, Anne Redferne, Anne Chattox, Master Lister, Alice Nutter, Annis Herd, Ales Newman, Robert Nutter, Jane Southworth, Pendle Hill, Ellen Bierley, Elizabeth Stile, Ales Hunt, Isabel Robey, Master Enger, Jane Bulcock, Ales Manfielde New!
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- Reading Witchcraft by Marion Gibson on 5 pages
- Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay by Robert Greene on 4 pages
- Pendle Witches by Bennett on page 174, page 193, and Back Matter
- Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in popular beliefs in sixteenth and seventeenth century England by Keith Thomas in Front Matter, page 292, and Back Matter
- Elizabethan Pamphleteers: Popular Moralistic Pamphlets, 1580-1640 by Sandra Clark in Front Matter, page 302, and Back Matter
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- Women in Early Britain, 1450-1640 (Social History in Perspective (Palgrave Paperback)) by Christine Peters in Back Matter
- Witchcraft and Society in England and America, 1550-1750 by Marion Gibson on page 53
- Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Period of the Witch Trials (Witchcraft and Magic in Europe) by Bengt Ankarloo in Back Matter
- Early Modern Witches: Witchcraft Cases in Contemporary Writing by Marion Gibson in Front Matter
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