Andrew Sneddon

Possessed by the Devil

The Real History of the Islandmagee Witches and Ireland's Only Mass Witchcraft Trial. Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 224 Seiten
ISBN 184588745X
EAN 9781845887452
Veröffentlicht Mai 2013
Verlag/Hersteller History Press
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In 1711, in County Antrim, eight women were put on trial accused of orchestrating the demonic possession of young Mary Dunbar, and the haunting and supernatural murder of a local clergyman's wife. Mary Dunbar was the star witness in this trial, and the women were, by the standards of the time, believable witches - they smoked, they drank, they just did not look right.With echoes of Arthur Miller's The Crucible and the Salem witch-hunt, this is a story of murder, of hysteria, and of how the 'witch craze' that claimed over 40,000 lives in Europe played out on Irish shores.

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Andrew Sneddon is a history professor and the foremost expert on the history of witchcraft in Ireland. He is the author of Witchcraft and Whigs.

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