The British Witch: The Biography

by P.G. Maxwell-Stuart

Book Overview

For over 500 years witches, male and female, practised magic for both harm and good in their communities. Most witches worked locally, used by their neighbours to cure illness, create love, or gratify personal spite against another. Margaret Lindsay from Northumberland was prosecuted for making men impotent, John Stokes in London for curing fevers, Collas de la Rue on Guernsey for killing people by witchcraft, and Isobel Gowdie in Auldearn for a variety...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445655438
• ISBN13: 9781445655437
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.9" x 7.8"