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WICCA FOR BEGINNERS: The essential guide to witchcraft, for the modern wiccans and witches
Publishing, Easy Wicca And Green Witchcraft; G.WATTS, Jennifer
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In den WarenkorbISBN-13: 9781616190576; ISBN-10: 1616190574. [Trials]. [Witchcraft]. Curious Cases and Amusing Actions at Law Including Some Trials of Witches in the Seventeenth Century. Originally published: Toronto: The Carswell Co., Limited, 1916. vii, 234 pp. Reprinted 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781616190576; ISBN-10: 1616…190574. Paperback. New. $21.95 * Fascinating and entertaining tales of cases and trials from the Birmingham Court of Requests, such as "The meek husband and the bouncing wife" and "The servant and his two masters," a witchcraft trial held before Sir Matthew Hale, 1664, taken down by an attendant at the proceedings, and six New England Salem witchcraft trials from 1692.
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In den WarenkorbISBN-13: 9781584770121; ISBN-10: 1584770120. Curious Cases [Trials]. [Witchcraft]. Curious Cases and Amusing Actions at Law Including Some Trials of Witches in the Seventeenth Century. Originally published: Toronto: The Carswell Co., Limited, 1916. vii, 234 pp. Reprinted 2000, 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 97815847…70121; ISBN-10: 1584770120. Hardcover. New. $39.95 * Fascinating and entertaining tales of cases and trials from the Birmingham Court of Requests, such as "The meek husband and the bouncing wife" and "The servant and his two masters," a witchcraft trial held before Sir Matthew Hale, 1664, taken down by an attendant at the proceedings, and six New England Salem witchcraft trials from 1692.
THE ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB SCHOONER MATCH, THE CAMBRIA AND WITCHCRAFT ROUNDING THE MOUSE LIGHT - an Original Antique Engraving printed in 1869
THE ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB SCHOONER MATCH, THE CAMBRIA AND WITCHCRAFT ROUNDING THE MOUSE LIGHT - an Original Antique Hand-Coloured Engraving printed in 1869
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THE ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB SCHOONER MATCH, THE CAMBRIA AND WITCHCRAFT ROUNDING THE MOUSE LIGHT - an Original Antique Engraving printed in 1869
THE ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB SCHOONER MATCH, THE CAMBRIA AND WITCHCRAFT ROUNDING THE MOUSE LIGHT - an Original Antique Engraving printed in 1869
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Verlag: Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1962
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Weitere BilderVerlag: [France,, 1634
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In den Warenkorb2 works in 1 volume. Two exceedingly rare pamphlets about the "Loudon possessions", a case of mass hysteria surrounding the supposed demonic possession of Ursuline nuns that took place in the western French town of Loudun in 1634. The affair led to the trial of a local priest, Urbain Grandier, who was accused of witchcraft. Inte…restingly, these two pamphlets are by an anonymous partisan of the accused priest. The possession cases began in 1632 when several nuns at the local Ursuline convent claimed to be possessed by demons. The nuns accused Grandier, a charismatic and controversial figure in Loudun, of casting spells on them and making them his witches. Grandier, who had gained the enmity of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu, was arrested and put on trial, despite a lack of evidence against him. The trial was riddled with corruption and political intrigue, and Grandier was ultimately found guilty and sentenced to death by burning at the stake. His execution took place on 18 August 1634.While 18th century accounts of the famous trial such as those by De La Menardaye were popular, contemporary accounts are almost unobtainable. Neither pamphlet has appeared in auction records, and there are very few institutional holdings.The spine and corners of the boards are rubbed, the title label is slightly chipped. Numbers in the upper corners of the leaves indicate that these two works were likely removed from a sammelband containing multiple works. Internally slightly browned, an older typed description has been mounted with tape to the recto of the first free flyleaf. Otherwise in good condition.l Ad 1: Caillet 4718; Coumont F7.1; WorldCat 467111589, 705771905 (7 copies); Yve-Plessis 1285; Ad 2: Coumont R31.1; WorldCat 1254612433 (2 copies); Yve-Plessis 1286; cf. for more information about Grandier and the Loudun Nuns, see: Robbins, The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology, pp. 312-317; Both ads not in Barbier, Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes; Rosenthal, Bibliotheca Magica et Pneumatica; Thorndike (Grandier and the Ursulines only mentioned once in general, vol VIII p. 583); Ad 2 not in Caillet. Modern marbled boards with a red morocco title-label lettered in gold on the spine. Pages: 12; 8 pp. With:(2) [WITCHCRAFT]. Remarques et considerations servans a la justification du curé de Loudun, autres que celles contenuës en son factum.[France, ca. 1634].
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In den Warenkorb4to (184 x 240 mm). 12 pp.; 8 pp. Bound together in modern marbled boards with morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Two exceedingly rare pamphlets about the "Loudon possessions", a case of mass hysteria surrounding the supposed demoniac possession of Ursuline nuns that took place in the western French town of Loudun in 1634. Th…e affair led to the trial of a local priest, Urbain Grandier, who was accused of witchcraft. Interestingly, these two pamphlets are by an anonymous partisan of the accused priest. - The possession cases began in 1632 when several nuns at the local Ursuline convent claimed to be possessed by demons. The nuns accused Grandier, a charismatic and controversial figure in Loudun, of casting spells on them and making them his witches. Grandier, who had gained the enmity of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu, was arrested and put on trial, despite a lack of evidence against him. The trial was riddled with corruption and political intrigue, and Grandier was ultimately found guilty and sentenced to death by burning at the stake. His execution took place on 18 August 1634. - Rubbing to spine and corners, chipping to spine label. Old numbers to upper corners indicate these were likely removed once from a sammelband of tracts. Contents lightly toned, an old typed description laid down with tape to front free endpaper. - While 18th century accounts of the famous trial such as those by De La Menardaye were popular, contemporary accounts are almost unobtainable. Neither pamphlet has appeared in auction records, and there are very few institutional holdings.
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Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 52 | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.
Verlag: Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1962
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In den Warenkorbdj. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's deep blue cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. [xi]; 162pp. Light bumping and edgewear to extremities, otherwise sharp and strong, with a slight bow to the boards; internally clean; in a strong, solid dustjacket with some unsightly spotting and staining and a little margina…l fraying and wear. A very good copy. Lethbridge's investigation into the history and traditions of modern witchcraft (if such a thing exists) benefits from an amount of contribution from actual contemporary witches, which is certainly an improvement on the general 'research' of the 60's and 70's which was much more interested in the 'dancing naked in the moonlight' aspects of magic and less in the 'as above, so below' theoreticals. This is what happens when rare bookdealers sell books to Jimmie Page. Lethbridge makes a credible attempt at a historical outline, and includes some folkloric sources that are generally overlooked in favor of the nearest pointy hat. Not terribly uncommon, but sought after.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Printed [by the English secret press?], [England?], 1600
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In den WarenkorbFIRST EDITION. 187 x 128 mm. (7 3/8 x 5"). 4 p.l., 24, 106, [2] pp. Very pleasing early 20th century grained calf, gilt, covers with French fillet border and rosette cornerpieces, raised bands, spine panels with small daisy centerpiece, gilt lettering, densely gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. STC 6288; ESTC S109…297. See also Freeman, "Demons, Deviance and Defiance: John Darrell and the Politics of Exorcism in Late Elizabethan England," in Conformity and Orthodoxy in the English Church, c. 1560-1660, ed. P. Lake and M. Questier, (Boydell Press, 2000), pp. 34-63. Short, faint scratch to front board, extremities lightly rubbed, text washed and pressed, title and final two leaves somewhat grayed and grubby, margins trimmed a bit close (occasionally grazing headlines or shoulder notes), but a perfectly readable copy in an attractive binding. This scarce clandestine imprint is a central publication in of one of the strangest religio-political controversies of the turn of the 17th century, involving demonic possession, witchcraft accusations, and an anti-Puritan crusade by a Church of England bishop. Our author, Puritan exorcist John Darrell (ca. 1562 - ca. 1607), was educated at Cambridge and briefly dabbled in law and farming before establishing himself as a preacher and spiritual healer. In 1586, he began conducting exorcisms, resulting in a level of local fame, partly because some of them resulted in the convictions of witches. In the following decade, he achieved national notoriety. First, in March of 1597, he exorcised a group of seven demoniacs in the household of Lancashire landowner Nicholas Starkey. Then, in November of the same year, he conducted a dramatic public exorcism of Nottingham apprentice musician William Somers, whose claim of having been magically possessed led to the arrest of 13 people on witchcraft charges. One of these individuals was the sister of a city alderman, who immediately took action to protect his kinswoman. The resulting legal tangle--which included the arrest of Somers on charges of witchcraft (later changed to fraud) and an investigative commission led by the Archbishop of York--attracted widespread attention to Darrell's activities by both supporters and detractors. The Church of England was highly concerned about Puritan exorcisms: in the words of historian Thomas S. Freeman, "exorcism magnified those aspects of Puritan worship which the ecclesiastical authorities most feared--its anti-hierarchical tendencies, its strong sense of communal solidarity and its potential as a vehicle for protest." No doubt with an understanding of this threat, Bishop of London Richard Bancroft and his chaplain Samuel Harsnett led a vicious campaign against Darrell, publishing multiple works smearing his character and theology, stripping Durrell of his license to preach, and imprisoning him for more than a year. Darrell did not go quietly. Over the next four years, he and his supporters penned multiple defenses of his actions and of Puritan exorcism more generally, published either abroad or illegally by secret English presses. The present work is significant not only for its detailed retelling of Darrell's final two exorcisms in his own words, but also because it includes Darrell's detailed "doctrine of possession," which discusses the difference between his exorcisms and those of the apostolic age, an important theological clarification in the debate. STC indicates that our book was one of the works published clandestinely in England; this is backed up by the October 29, 1600 Stationers' Company order to burn all copies of "mr Darrell['s] book lately printed concerning the casting out of Devilles," which Freeman asserts refers to the present publication. This order to be burned, on top of the clandestine publication, could explain the present scarcity of the work, which appears on the market very infrequently. We have been able to trace just a single copy at auction this century (and only five since 1964), several lacking the final errata leaf, which does appear here.
Weitere BilderVerlag: London: John Russell Smith, 1837-38, 1837
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In den WarenkorbFirst edition thus, part of the publisher's "Library of Old Authors". Smith issued numerous reprints of early tracts, such as Puritan discipline works, the ballads of Captain Cox, and reports of 15th-century battles. This collection was followed in 1862 by a volume on the witch trials of New England. The tracts were printed sepa…rately and have separate title pages, but were published as a single edition with a collected contents page. Octavo (209 x 129 mm). Portrait frontispiece. Contemporary black half calf, brown morocco spine label, marbled boards, brown endpapers, edges speckled red, binder's ticket of W. Isacke, London, on front pastedown. Contemporary shelf label on front pastedown; a handful of neat annotations to contents. Binding rubbed, front inner hinge cracked, contents lightly foxed and browned: a very good copy.
[Manuscript] Unpublished INTERROGATION PROTOCOLS FROM THE WITCH TRIALS OF 1629-1633 IN THE RHINELAND
Sprache: Deutsch
Verlag: Gerolstein, 1629
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In den WarenkorbZustand: Near Fine. [WITCH TRIALS] Manuscript on paper, 38 leaves, Rhineland, 1629-1633. Three parts measuring approximately 23 × 19 cm, one part 31 × 20 cm. Preserved in a protective box. A group of four original witch-trial protocols, all conducted under the direction of Hexenkommissar Dr. Johann Moeden (1592-1663): 1. Trial r…ecords of Otten Anna and Marks Marien, 3-8 February 1629, 18 leaves. 2. Prothocollum concerning Jungs Künne of Bewingen, now part of Gerolstein, 15 March-28 April 1629, 8 leaves. 3. Trial records of Ruloffs or Lentzens Sunnen of Gladt and Schell Sun of Sengerstorff, 1-8 October 1633, 8 leaves. Gladt is in the Vulkaneifel region. 4. Protocollum concerning Mals Voigd, 1-24 October 1633, 4 leaves. A rare survival of early seventeenth-century Rhineland witchcraft proceedings, documenting several local prosecutions in the Eifel region during the height of the German witch persecutions.Witch-trial protocols from the Rhineland, conducted between 1629 and 1633, at a time when the region was ravaged by mass prosecutions under the feared Cologne witch commissioner Dr. Johannes Möden. Möden was described by contemporaries as one of the worst witch hunters of his age, hurrying from one court to the next in search of new victims. These unpublished protocols contain the essential machinery of early modern witch prosecution: appearances of the Devil, confessions of witchcraft, alleged maleficia, denunciations, and the methods by which such statements were extracted under torture. In the first half of the seventeenth century, the Holy Roman Empire was marked by overlapping catastrophes whose effects were felt for generations. Alongside the devastation of the Thirty Years' War, communities endured the severe climatic conditions now known as the Little Ice Age. Against this background of war, crop failure, disease, and social anxiety, witch persecutions flared with renewed intensity. These prosecutions were not lawless eruptions of popular hysteria, but often highly structured legal proceedings, conducted before secular courts and shaped by trained jurists. A central part of this machinery was the commissioned witch jurist, or Hexenkommissar. Johannes Möden, a fully trained lawyer from a prominent Koblenz family of wool weavers, and later mayor of the city, was one such figure. Local Rhineland courts, commonly staffed by untrained lay judges, were required to consult university-trained jurists in complex criminal cases. This created the role of the Hexenkommissar: part legal adviser, part prosecutor, part travelling specialist. In practice, the boundary between consultation and prosecution was often fluid, allowing men such as Möden to accumulate influence across territorial borders as semi-independent witch prosecutors who profited directly from the proceedings they directed. The legal handling of torture reveals the grim sophistication of the system. Roman law forbade torturing a suspect a second time on the same charge: if torture failed to produce a confession, the matter should have ended there. Yet demonological legal theory had long found ways around this restriction. As Kramer had already argued in the Malleus Maleficarum, if the torturer stopped without securing a confession, a later session need not be treated as an illegal repetitio, or repetition, but merely as a continuatio — a continuation of the same interrogation, temporarily interrupted. Such distinctions gave judicial form to cruelty and allowed torture to be prolonged while preserving the appearance of legal regularity. A rare and disturbing survival from the Rhineland witch persecutions, documenting not only the accusations themselves but also the bureaucratic and legal apparatus through which fear was converted into confession, conviction, and death. MORE INFO ON REQUEST.
