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The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
The Witch A History of Fear from Ancient Times to the Present Author:Ronald Hutton This landmark book sets the notorious European witch trials in the widest and deepest possible perspective and traces the major historiographical developments of witchcraft. Ronald Hutton traces witchcraft from the ancient world to the early-modern stake. A fresh anthropological and ethnographical approach focuses on cultural inheritance and cha... more »nge while considering shamanism, folk religion, the range of witch trials, and how the fear of witchcraft might be eradicated.« less