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Witch Craze : Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany
Witch Craze Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany
Author: Lyndal Roper
From the gruesome ogress in Hansel and Gretel to the hags at the sabbath in Faust, the witch has been a powerful figure of the Western imagination. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries thousands of women confessed to being witches—of making pacts with the Devil, causing babies to sicken, and killing animals and crops...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300103359
ISBN-10: 0300103352
Publication Date: 12/11/2004
Pages: 376
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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