Witchland: A Deadly Moral Panic in Seventeenth-Century Britain
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In the decades before Salem, a moral panic swept Britain and left hundreds of so-called witches dead. During the English Civil War of the 1640s, witch trials began in southeast England and Lowland Scotland. Fueled by religiosity, misogyny, and wartime economic stress, they grew into a mass panic that killed more than three hundred people in ten years. Drawing on newly found documents, Marion Gibson gives voice to the accused, especially impoverished women dependent on neighbors' goodwill. Each chapter focuses on a different town, showing how wartime chaos deepens existing divides and leaves those without power most exposed, on the scale of the town square and the nation.
Genres: True Crime
ISBN-13: 9781668206539
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