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Witchcraft Accusations in Nineteenth - and Twentieth - Century Europe
Davies, Owen (Routledge, 2019-12-24)On a popular level, Satan’s identity has always been fragmented into local variations. At times, the Satan of European folklore was a beast quite different from the Satan of the Church. The sharpest break in the traditional ... -
Witchcraft and the Somerset idyll : The depiction of folk belief in Walter Raymond’s novels
Davies, Owen; White, Simon (2015-04)The work of Walter Raymond (1852-1931) is now largely forgotten. Yet his Somerset novels, complemented by his ethnographic writings, contain depictions of local witchcraft belief that are worthy of study in literary and ... -
Witchcraft Continued : Popular Magic in Modern Europe
Davies, Owen (Manchester University Press, 2004) -
Witchcraft Historiography
Barry, Jonathan; Davies, Owen; School of Humanities; Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute; History; Centre for Regional and Local History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) -
Witchcraft, Magic and Culture 1736-1951
Davies, Owen (Manchester University Press, 1999) -
The Wretch of Today, may be Happy Tomorrow: poverty in England, c 1700-1840
Lloyd, Sarah (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2017-08-10)This chapter explores what we can know about the conceptualization and representation of by poorer Britons. It draws on ‘pauper letters’ to parish authorities, written tactically, and on autobiographies and letters composed ...