ISBN: 1597403857

[EAN: 9781597403856], Neubuch, [PU: ACLS History E-Book Project], WALLACE NOTESTEIN,SPIRITUALITY,ENGLAND,WICCA,WITCHCRAFT, Body, Mind & Spirit|Witchcraft & Wicca, This item is printed on … More...

[EAN: 9781597403856], Neubuch, [PU: ACLS History E-Book Project], WALLACE NOTESTEIN,SPIRITUALITY,ENGLAND,WICCA,WITCHCRAFT, Body, Mind & Spirit|Witchcraft & Wicca, This item is printed on demand. 476 pages. Dimensions: 9.0in. x 6.0in. x 1.0in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: . . . the establishment of the Protectorate, a time that shaded off from the dark shadows of internecine struggle towards the high light of steady peace and security. By 1653 the equilibrium of England had been restored. Cromwells government was beginning to run smoothly. The courts were in full swing. None of those conditions to which we have attributed the spread of the witch alarms of the Civil Wars were any longer in operation. It is not surprising, then, that the Protectorate was one of the most quiet periods in the annals of witchcraft. While the years 1648-1653 had wit Yet in 1650 there had been a scare at Gatesbead which cost the rate pa yen 2, of which a significant item was 6 d. for a grave for a witch. Denham Tracts (Folk Lore Soc), II, 338. At Durham, in 1652, two persons were executed. Richardson, Table Book (London, 1841), I, 286. J. C. Cox, Three Centuries of Derbyshire Annals (London, 1890), II, 88. Cox, however, thinks it probable that she was punished. nessed thirty executions in England, the period of the Protectorate saw but half a dozen, and three of these fell within the somewhat disturbed rule of Richard Cromwell. In other words, there was a very marked falling off of convictions for witchcraft, a falling off that had indeed begun before the year 1653. Yet this diminution of capital sentences does not by any means signify that the realm was rid of superstition. In Middlesex, in Somerset and Devon, in York, Northumberland, and Cumberland, the attack upon witches on the part of the people was going on with undiminished vigor. If no great discoveries were made, if no nests of the pestilent creatures were unearthed, the justices of the peace were kept quite as busy with examinations as ever. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

ISBN: 9781597403856

Paperback, [PU: Acls History E-Book Project], Contents: Beginnings of English Witchcraft; Witchcraft Under Elizabeth; Reginald Scot; Exorcists; James I and Witchcraft; Notable Jacobean Ca… More...

Paperback, [PU: Acls History E-Book Project], Contents: Beginnings of English Witchcraft; Witchcraft Under Elizabeth; Reginald Scot; Exorcists; James I and Witchcraft; Notable Jacobean Cases; Lancashire Witches and Charles I; Matthew Hopkins; Witchcraft During the Commonwealth and Protectorate; Literature of Witchcraft from 1603 to 1660; Witchcraft Under Charles II and James II; Glanvill and Webster and the Literary War Over Witchcraft 1660-1688; Final Declines; Close of the Literary Controversy., Witchcraft & Wicca<

ISBN: 9781597403856

Paperback, [PU: ACLS History E-Book Project], Contents: Beginnings of English Witchcraft; Witchcraft Under Elizabeth; Reginald Scot; Exorcists; James I and Witchcraft; Notable Jacobean Ca… More...

Paperback, [PU: ACLS History E-Book Project], Contents: Beginnings of English Witchcraft; Witchcraft Under Elizabeth; Reginald Scot; Exorcists; James I and Witchcraft; Notable Jacobean Cases; Lancashire Witches and Charles I; Matthew Hopkins; Witchcraft During the Commonwealth and Protectorate; Literature of Witchcraft from 1603 to 1660; Witchcraft Under Charles II and James II; Glanvill and Webster and the Literary War Over Witchcraft 1660-1688; Final Declines; Close of the Literary Controversy., Witchcraft & Wicca<

ISBN: 1597403857

A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 ab 49.99 € als Taschenbuch: . Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen, ACLS HISTORY E BOOK PROJECT

ISBN: 9781597403856

A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 Paperback New Books, Lightning Source Inc