A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics, and Pagans by Jeffrey Burton Russell

A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics, and Pagans

Jeffrey Burton Russell

192 pages first pub 1980 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative medium-paced
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Drawing comparisons between modern sorcery and that of the ancient world, the book shows how the European witch craze in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries developed out of a combination of ancient sorcery and medieval Christian heresy, pagan...

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