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Description:The motif of witches and witchcraft is a venerable one in weird fiction, chiefly because the witchcraft panic of the Middle Ages and Renaissance permanently embedded the theme into European society. In this new and expansive anthology, Katherine Kerestman and S. T. Joshi have not only unearthed great stories and poems, old and new, about witches, but also chronicled the witch-hunts that resulted in the unjust deaths of hundreds of thousands of suspected witches over many centuries.Treatises by Nicolas Rémy, Henri Boguet, Matthew Hale, and others cruelly portrayed witches, both male and female (but mostly female), as having signed pacts with the Devil. The sexual obsession of these male witch-hunters is evident throughout their writings. Their work led to the chilling portrayal of witches as evil crones, evidenced in tales, plays, and poems by William Shakespeare, L. Frank Baum, Clark Ashton Smith, Frank Belknap Long, Ramsey Campbell, and others.This volume features original stories and poems on witches and witchcraft by such leading contemporary writers as John Shirley, Darrell Schweitzer, Wade German, Stephen Mark Rainey, Debra K. Every, and many others who exhibit the continuing power of this motif. Also included are distinctive illustrations from witch-hunting manuals, which reveal the twisted mentalities of self-appointed witch-hunters as they targeted innocent people in their vicious crusade.Contents:Introduction Euripides, From Medea Heinrich Kramer and Jakob Sprenger, From Malleus MaleficarumMary A. Turzillo, Dollhouse L. Frank Baum, The Search for the Wicked Witch Nicholas Rémy, From DemonolatryDebra K. Every, Beautiful Baby Bianka Robert Herrick, The Hag Stephen Mark Rainey, Foragers Lady Wilde, The Horned Women William Bell Scott, A Lowland Witch Ballad John Kachuba, Why We Don’t Dig Up Witches Henri Boguet, From An Examen of WitchesDmitri Akers, Song of Fae-Land Ramsey Campbell, Dolls Cotton Mather, From Wonders of the Invisible World Donald Tyson, Cotton Mather and the Witches William Shakespeare, From MacbethSimon MacCulloch, Burnt Ghost Robert P. Ottone, Donna and the Yaga Matthew Hopkins, From The Discoverie of WitchesIm Bang, A Visit from the Shades Clark Ashton Smith, The Witch in the Graveyard John Hale, A Modest Enquiry into the Nature of WitchcraftHelena P. Blavatsky, A Witch’s DenAnn Putnam, Confession Ambrose Bierce, A Fowl Witch Adam Bolivar, Géacspell Darrell Schweitzer, Seeing Them Michael Potts, Musings of a Conjurer Eleanor Scott, The Old Lady Edmund Clarence Stedman, Witchcraft John Shirley, The Children of Glimbly Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Witch-Mother Alice Elizabeth Dracott, The Old Witch Who Lived in a Forest Tony LaMalfa, The Eye of the Cyclops Herman George Scheffauer, Lilith of Eld Robert E. Howard, Sea CurseMary Elizabeth Coleridge, The Witch Éliphas Lévi, From The History of Magic Oliver Smith, Witch’s Death Song Joel Chandler Harris, A Plantation Witch James Weldon Johnson, The White Witch Margaret Alice Murray, From The Witch-Cult in Western Europe Leah Bodine Drake, Witches on the Heath Frank Belknap Long, The White People Maxwell I. Gold, The Witch of the Pit (Our Lady Endor) Dorothy Quick, Witch’s Brew Mary De Morgan, The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde Wade German, Hex House Montague Summers, From The History of Witchcraft and Demonology Katherine Kerestman, The Beldame Anna Taborska, [Ir]reversibleNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Witches and Witchcraft: An Anthology of Stories, Poems, and Essays. To get started finding Witches and Witchcraft: An Anthology of Stories, Poems, and Essays, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The motif of witches and witchcraft is a venerable one in weird fiction, chiefly because the witchcraft panic of the Middle Ages and Renaissance permanently embedded the theme into European society. In this new and expansive anthology, Katherine Kerestman and S. T. Joshi have not only unearthed great stories and poems, old and new, about witches, but also chronicled the witch-hunts that resulted in the unjust deaths of hundreds of thousands of suspected witches over many centuries.Treatises by Nicolas Rémy, Henri Boguet, Matthew Hale, and others cruelly portrayed witches, both male and female (but mostly female), as having signed pacts with the Devil. The sexual obsession of these male witch-hunters is evident throughout their writings. Their work led to the chilling portrayal of witches as evil crones, evidenced in tales, plays, and poems by William Shakespeare, L. Frank Baum, Clark Ashton Smith, Frank Belknap Long, Ramsey Campbell, and others.This volume features original stories and poems on witches and witchcraft by such leading contemporary writers as John Shirley, Darrell Schweitzer, Wade German, Stephen Mark Rainey, Debra K. Every, and many others who exhibit the continuing power of this motif. Also included are distinctive illustrations from witch-hunting manuals, which reveal the twisted mentalities of self-appointed witch-hunters as they targeted innocent people in their vicious crusade.Contents:Introduction Euripides, From Medea Heinrich Kramer and Jakob Sprenger, From Malleus MaleficarumMary A. Turzillo, Dollhouse L. Frank Baum, The Search for the Wicked Witch Nicholas Rémy, From DemonolatryDebra K. Every, Beautiful Baby Bianka Robert Herrick, The Hag Stephen Mark Rainey, Foragers Lady Wilde, The Horned Women William Bell Scott, A Lowland Witch Ballad John Kachuba, Why We Don’t Dig Up Witches Henri Boguet, From An Examen of WitchesDmitri Akers, Song of Fae-Land Ramsey Campbell, Dolls Cotton Mather, From Wonders of the Invisible World Donald Tyson, Cotton Mather and the Witches William Shakespeare, From MacbethSimon MacCulloch, Burnt Ghost Robert P. Ottone, Donna and the Yaga Matthew Hopkins, From The Discoverie of WitchesIm Bang, A Visit from the Shades Clark Ashton Smith, The Witch in the Graveyard John Hale, A Modest Enquiry into the Nature of WitchcraftHelena P. Blavatsky, A Witch’s DenAnn Putnam, Confession Ambrose Bierce, A Fowl Witch Adam Bolivar, Géacspell Darrell Schweitzer, Seeing Them Michael Potts, Musings of a Conjurer Eleanor Scott, The Old Lady Edmund Clarence Stedman, Witchcraft John Shirley, The Children of Glimbly Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Witch-Mother Alice Elizabeth Dracott, The Old Witch Who Lived in a Forest Tony LaMalfa, The Eye of the Cyclops Herman George Scheffauer, Lilith of Eld Robert E. Howard, Sea CurseMary Elizabeth Coleridge, The Witch Éliphas Lévi, From The History of Magic Oliver Smith, Witch’s Death Song Joel Chandler Harris, A Plantation Witch James Weldon Johnson, The White Witch Margaret Alice Murray, From The Witch-Cult in Western Europe Leah Bodine Drake, Witches on the Heath Frank Belknap Long, The White People Maxwell I. Gold, The Witch of the Pit (Our Lady Endor) Dorothy Quick, Witch’s Brew Mary De Morgan, The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde Wade German, Hex House Montague Summers, From The History of Witchcraft and Demonology Katherine Kerestman, The Beldame Anna Taborska, [Ir]reversibleNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Witches and Witchcraft: An Anthology of Stories, Poems, and Essays. To get started finding Witches and Witchcraft: An Anthology of Stories, Poems, and Essays, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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