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If the witchfinders came to your town, who would you have believed and what would you have done? With the English civil wars raging in the background, Witchland reveals how economic uncertainty, religious extremism and deprivation created the ideal conditions for mass witch-hunting in Britain. Across the country, fear spread rapidly, and neighbours turned on one another in panic. Women and the poor were especially vulnerable, scapegoated by the powerful looking for someone to blame, and hundreds of witch trials across the country soon followed. The hysteria provided a handbook for similar trials to occur around the world, most famously just a few decades later in Salem. Moving from village to village, Professor Marion Gibson reveals how accusations grew out of everyday tensions poverty, grief, and resentment and how entire communities became involved in the persecution of the innocent. Drawing on newly uncovered historical records, this gripping historical account restores the voices of those accused of witchcraft. These were ordinary people, largely forgotten by history, along with their families and neighbours caught up in suspicion and moral panic. Both a powerful history and a warning from the past, Witchland is the captivating story of witchcraft, inequality and the violence that surfaces during times of political and economic upheaval.
Marion Gibson is a bestselling author and historian of witchcraft and magic. In addition to her first trade book, Witchcraft, Marion has published eight academic books on witches in history and literature, edited five books, and published many articles on witches and magic. Emerita Professor of Renaissance and Magical Literatures at the University of Exeter, she lives in Devonshire, England.
