Description
This book is about the history of witchcraft and its development over time. It covers the period from the 1500s to the 1700s and discusses how the belief in witchcraft developed, how witch-hunting became an obsession, and how the practice eventually declined. Additionally, the book discusses the "afterlife" of witchcraft, which includes the Nazi fixation on it and modern treatments.
Explores the development of witchcraft and of the belief in it, the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century obsession that spawned witch-hunting, the eventual decline of witchcraft, and the phenomenon's fascinating 'afterlife' that has involved the Nazis' fixation and modern treatments including Arthur...