Godina izdanja: Ostalo
ISBN: Ostalo
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Hunt the Witch Down!: Twelve Real Life Stories of Witches and Witchcraft
by Margaret Ronan

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122 strane
engleski jezik
lepo očuvana, stranice malo požutele

Sometimes ill-favored and bad-tempered, usually sharp-tongued--they were people who scared the living daylights out of ordinary folk because of their weird ways, or aroused their envy because of their strange powers. Powers that seemed to come from the devil. People called them witches!

And what did they have in common, these witches? They were women. Women who used all their wit and wile to survive in an oftime hostile world. Desperately unhappy housewives, young women and girls, a little crazy maybe, poor usually, but hunted down and tortured by the law, even put to death. Their greatest crime: being born female.

Twelve true and exciting stories of twelve women whose neighbors were sure they were witches.

I approached this one cautiously, fearing it would be fiction dressed up as true stories -- there were no citations or anything to make the stories look kosher -- but as it turned out they were all easy to find using Google, and many of them were very well documented indeed, including cases like Joan of Arc and the insanity of the Salem witch trials. Every chapter was well written and intriguing. Quite a few were totally new to me. All were tragic in the extreme. This book is well worth your time.