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History, Magic, Witchcraft, Occultism, Cults, Magic, historyPlaces
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Witchcraft, magic, and culture, 1736-1951
1999, Manchester University Press, Distributed in the USA by S. Martin's Press
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0719056551 9780719056550
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Table of Contents
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.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-329) and index.
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