Tabla de Contenidos: “…Witches brew -- An Islamic state -- The perils of appeasement -- The holy terror -- Operation Earthquake -- Turning the tide -- Breaking the myth -- The scorpion's tale…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Acknowledgements --Map: Place of origin of the sixty-five people involved as accused, self-confessed or reputed witches in witch-trials in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, 1549-1709 --Introduction --1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Tommys Time 2. Minor Mishap 3. Witches Pit 4. Marys Blues 5. Cat Walk 6. Route Four 7. …”

“…Beginning with a discussion of witchcraft in the early modern period, and charting the witch panics that took place at this time, the author goes on to look at the historical debate surrounding the causes of the legal persecution of witches. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cleansing and confession of witches -- pt. III. Idioms of power -- pt. IV. Alternative interpretations of misfortune…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Accused heretics -- Inquisition as bureaucracy -- Mysteries of state -- Globalization and guinea pigs -- States and stains -- New Christians and New World fears -- The Inca's witches -- Becoming Indian…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Lewis and the act of reading -- The lion, the witch and the Atlantean box : psychoanalysis and Narnia revisited -- Pullman, Lewis, MacDonald and the anxiety of influence -- Witches' time in Philip Pullman, C.S. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Preface; Chapter One -- Witchcraft Discourse in Post-Colonial Africa; Introduction; Methodological approach; Studies in Witchcraft; Organisation of the book; Chapter Two. Witches of Venda and Kom; The Omnipresence of Witchcraft; Kom; Venda; Witchcraft beliefs and practices; Inherited witchcraft; Case 1: Makwarela: A witch with spirit-induced witchcraft in Venda; Case 2, Bea: A witch with spirit-induced witchcraft in Kom; Purchased witchcraft…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…/ Marianna Muravyeva and Raisa Maria Toivo -- Historiography and the politics of gender -- From women's oppression to male anxiety : the concept of "patriarchy" in the historiography of early modern Europe / Androniki Dialeti -- The metaphysics of gender in Christine de Pizan's thought / Ilse Paakkinen -- "That women are but men's shadows" : examining gender, violence and criminality in early modern Britain / Anne-Marie Kilday -- Female spirituality, religion and gender identities -- A good wife : demonic possession and discourses of gender in later medieval culture / Sari Katajala-Peltomaa -- Between martyrdom and everyday pragmatism : gender, family, and anabaptism in early modern Germany / Pivi Risnen -- Women's sexuality between legal prescription and ecclesiastical control in the Romanian principalities in the 18th century / Constanta Vintila-Gitulesku -- Gendered witches and Nordic patriarchal compromises -- Women, witches, and the town courts of Ribe : ideas of the gendered witch in early modern Denmark / Louise Nyholm Kallestrup -- Male witches and masculinity in early modern Finnish witchcraft trials / Raisa Maria Toivo -- Gendering moral crimes in early modern England and Europe : blasphemy the mirror image of witchcraft / David Nash -- Laws, genders and deviancies -- Gendered suicide in early modern Sweden and Finland / Riikka Miettinen -- The responsibility of a seducer : men and the breach of promise in early modern Swedish legislation / Mari Vimki -- Personalizing homosexuality and masculinity in early modern Russia / Marianna Muravyeva / Contributors -- Notes -- Index…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapbooks: Popular texts for a large audience -- The novels of Georg Wickram -- Woman, wife, witch?: The representation of woman in Johann Fischart's Geschichtklitterung -- Polizeiordnungen: Taming the shrew with common sense and the law…”
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“…The psychology of the witch character is characterised by a combination of impious scepticism towards God and credulous belief in the tricks of the witch’s master, the devil. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: Seeing invisible worlds -- The passion of Chitimukulu -- Christian witches -- Satan in the city -- A new Jerusalem -- The dawn -- Devils of war -- God in heaven, Kaunda on earth -- A nation reborn -- Conclusion: The spirit realm of agency…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…The witch and the detective: mid-Victorian stories and beliefs -- 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- The creation of female disability : medical, prescriptive and moral discourses -- The artifice of syphilitic and damaged female bodies in literature -- The disabling of aging female bodies : midwives, procuresses, witches and the monstrous mother -- Historical testimony of female disability : the neurological impairment of Teresa de Ávila -- Conclusion…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: Reading for Desire -- Getting Used, and Liking It: Erotic Instrumentality and the Go- -- Between -- Everything That Moves: Promiscuous Fancy and Carnival Longing -- It Takes One to Know One: Paranoid Suspicion and the Witch Hunt -- Lost Worlds, Lost Selves: Queer Colonial Melancholia -- Conclusion: The Persistence of Fancy…”

“…What was witchcraft? Were witches real? How should witches be identified? How should they be judged? …”