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By Laura Kounine,Michael Ostling

ISBN-10: 1137529024

ISBN-13: 9781137529022

Bringing jointly prime historians, anthropologists, and religionists, this quantity examines the unbridled passions of witchcraft from the center a while to the current. Witchcraft is an intensely emotional crime, rooted within the trust that envy and spite may cause affliction or perhaps dying. Witch-trials in flip are emotionally pushed via the grief of alleged sufferers and by way of the fears of magistrates and demonologists. 
With examples starting from Russia to New England, Germany to Cameroon, chapters disguise the illustration of emotional witches in demonology and paintings; the gendering of witchcraft as girl envy or male rage; witchcraft as a sort of bullying and witchcraft accusation as a sort of treatment; love magic and demon-lovers; and the affective memorialization of the “Burning occasions” between modern Pagan feminists. Wide-ranging and methodologically diversified, the booklet is suitable for students of witchcraft, gender, and feelings; for graduate or undergraduate classes, and for the basic reader.

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