Katherine Howe. (2014). The Penguin Book of Witches. Penguin Publishing Group.

Katherine Howe. 2014. The Penguin Book of Witches. Penguin Publishing Group.

Katherine Howe, The Penguin Book of Witches. Penguin Publishing Group, 2014.

Katherine Howe. The Penguin Book of Witches. Penguin Publishing Group, 2014.

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Chilling real-life accounts of witches, from medieval Europe through colonial America, compiled by the New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane and The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs
From a manual for witch hunters written by King James himself in 1597, to court documents from the Salem witch trials of 1692, to newspaper coverage of a woman stoned to death on the streets of Philadelphia while the Continental Congress met, The Penguin Book of Witches is a treasury of historical accounts of accused witches that sheds light on the reality behind the legends. Bringing to life stories like that of Eunice Cole, tried for attacking a teenage girl with a rock and buried with a stake through her heart; Jane Jacobs, a Bostonian so often accused of witchcraft that she took her tormentors to court on charges of slander; and Increase Mather, an exorcism-performing minister famed for his knowledge of witches, this volume provides a unique tour through the darkest history of English and North American witchcraft.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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     Howe (The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane) provides a collection of historical accounts of witchcraft, dating from medieval Europe to early 19th-century America. With insightful notations and a central focus on the Salem witch trials, the book proposes that persecution and executions for the suspicion of witchery in Colonial America were not anomalies. Howe cites biblical references, legal proceedings, and an actual witch-hunting manual to posit that the fear of witches and witchcraft was part of mainstream culture during that period rather than an isolated phenomenon. She draws upon documents such as court testimony and newspaper accounts to explain that colonists' ancestral familiarity with the subject grew into a hysteria that resulted in the Salem trials as well as persecutions for witchcraft in the United States well into the 1800s. VERDICT Recent titles such as Lois Martin's The History of Witchcraft (2010) provide an accessible, albeit brief, overview of a well-covered phenomenon. The antiquated writing style of some of the original documents in Howe's collection is challenging, however, this superbly edited and annotated work provides in-depth material for those interested in the origins of witchcraft persecution in America.--Mary Jennings, Camano Island Lib., WA

     Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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From a manual for witch hunters written by King James himself in 1597, to court documents from the Salem witch trials of 1692, to newspaper coverage of a woman stoned to death on the streets of Philadelphia while the Continental Congress met, The Penguin Book of Witches is a treasury of historical accounts of accused witches that sheds light on the reality behind the legends. Bringing to life stories like that of Eunice Cole, tried for attacking a teenage girl with a rock and buried with a stake through her heart; Jane Jacobs, a Bostonian so often accused of witchcraft that she took her tormentors to court on charges of slander; and Increase Mather, an exorcism-performing minister famed for his knowledge of witches, this volume...

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