Book description
The author of the Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic unveils the history of witches in one of southwest England’s most spiritual sites.
The belief in witchcraft and magic was widespread in nineteenth-century Somerset. Witches were blamed for causing the ill health and death of people and their animals.…
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A thoroughly interesting book on the belief in witchcraft and magic in 19th century Somerset (UK), which came very handy when I was doing research on the beliefs of the country folk living in Somerset village of Dunster.
Some stories are quite heartbreaking and paint a sad picture of what life was like for those who did not conform to the worldviews of their uneducated and highly superstitious fellow villagers.
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