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Owen Davies (born 1969) is a British historian who specialises in the history of magic, witchcraft, ghosts, and popular medicine. [1] He is currently Professor in History at the University of Hertfordshire [ 2 ] and has been described as Britain's "foremost academic expert on the history of magic".
The Oxford Illustrated Histories are a series of single-volume history books written by experts and published by the Oxford University Press. [1] According to Hew Strachan , its intended readership is the 'intelligent general reader' rather than the research student.
Brigue was one of several women convicted of witchcraft. Her godmother, Jeanne, supposedly instructed her who taught her how to control the demon Haussibut while Marion her neighbor from Doue, Seine-et-Marne, taught her the art of divination. Brigue was said to be able to find lost objects and there were a number of witnesses called to describe ...
There were thought to be many types of witchcraft that one could practice, such as alchemy; the purification, perfection, maturation and changing of various substances, [4] and astrology; the reading of the heavens to predict one’s future, however in the early modern period the most concern was over that which involved dealing with the devil. [1]
This category is for articles on history books with witchcraft as a topic. Pages in category "History books about witchcraft" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
Weyer's works include medical and moral works as well as his more famous critiques of magic and witchcraft: De Praestigiis Daemonum et Incantationibus ac Venificiis ('On the Illusions of the Demons and on Spells and Poisons'), 1563. Pseudomonarchia Daemonum ('The False Kingdom of the Demons'), an appendix to De Praestigiis Daemonum, 1577.
Europe's Inner Demons: An Enquiry Inspired by the Great Witch-Hunt is a historical study of the beliefs regarding European witchcraft in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, with particular reference to the development of the witches' sabbat and its influence on the witch trials in the Early Modern period.
De praestigiis daemonum, translated as On the Tricks of Demons, [1] is a book by medical doctor Johann Weyer, also known as Wier, first published in Basel in 1563. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The book argues that witchcraft does not exist and that those who claim to practice it are suffering from delusions, which should be treated as mental illnesses, rather ...