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- Title
Witchcraft--Discourse and Disappearance.
- Authors
DE BLÉCOURT, WILLEM
- Abstract
A literary criticism of the book "The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe," by Edward Bever is presented. The author blames Bever for not granting any redress to the persons accused of witchcraft in the Württemberg cases that he analyzed, for declaring them guilty of intent and deed, and for drawing broad conclusions chronologically and geographically. He adds that Bever is guilty of overstatement when he wrote that witchcraft started disappearing in the seventeenth century because women avoided acting like witches.
- Subjects
REALITIES of Witchcraft &; Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe: Culture, Cognition &; Everyday Life, The (Book); BEVER, Edward; CRITICISM; WITCHCRAFT; WITCHES
- Publication
Magic, Ritual & Witchcraft, 2010, Vol 5, Issue 1, p103
- ISSN
1556-8547
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/mrw.0.0166