Riding the nightmare : women & witchcraft from the Old World to colonial Salem / Selma R. Williams and Pamela Williams Adelman.
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Williams, Selma R. (författare)
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Adelman, Pamela Williams, 1953- (författare)
- ISBN 0060974966
- First HarperPerennial edition.
- Publicerad: New York : HarperPerennial, 1992
- Copyright: ©1978
- Engelska ix, 228 pages
Innehållsförteckning
Sammanfattning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- The untold tale -- The goddess and the witch -- Arrival of the Devil in Europe. Turmoil in the West ; The Lady and the Saint ; "The hammer of witches" ; "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" ; "Women should be subject" -- Interlude : Lilith and the monsters of the night -- Witch hunting in Britain. "The discoverie of witchcraft" ; "Daemonologie" ; "More women, more witches" ; "Witchfinder General" -- Scapegoats at Salem. "This American Jezebel" ; The "woeful decade" ; "Contract with the Devil" ; "An evil hand" ; Personal note ; "Queen of Hell" ; "The Devil's kingdom" -- A note on spelling, dates, superb libraries, and perceptive critics.
- The author shows how myths, folk art and church dogma and politics linked up during the craze that sent as many as a million people-90% of them women to the gallows.
Ämnesord
- Witchcraft -- History. (LCSH)
- Sex discrimination against women -- History. (LCSH)
- Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Salem. (LCSH)
- Sex discrimination against women -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History -- 17th century. (LCSH)
- Sex discrimination against women. (fast)
- Witchcraft. (fast)
- Könsdiskriminering (kao)
- Förföljelse (kao)
- Persecution (kao//eng)
- Sex discrimination (kao//eng)
- Häxeri -- historia (sao)
- Häxprocesser -- historia (sao)
- Häxor -- historia (sao)
- Kvinnoförtryck -- historia (sao)
- Häxor -- historia (kao)
- Folktro -- magi (kao)
- Witches -- history (kao//eng)
- Popular beliefs -- magic (kao//eng)
- Europa (kao)
- Storbritannien (kao)
- Förenta Staterna (kao)
- Europe (kao//eng)
- Great Britain (kao//eng)
- United States (kao//eng)
- Massachusetts -- Salem. (fast)
- Förenta staterna -- Massachusetts -- Salem (sao)
- 1600-talet (sao)
- 1600-1699 (fast)
- 1600-talet (kao)
- 17th century (kao//eng)
Genre
- History. (fast)
Klassifikation
- BF1566 (LCC)
- 133.43082 (DDC)
- Blb (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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