Emotions in the History of Witchcraft

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kounine, Laura (Editor), Ostling, Michael (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
• Subjects: History.; World history.; Civilization > History.; Social history.; Emotions.; Psychology.; Cultural History.; Emotion.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; History of Psychology.; Social History.

Bringing together leading historians, anthropologists, and religionists, this volume examines the unbridled passions of witchcraft from the Middle Ages to the present. Witchcraft is an intensely emotional crime, rooted in the belief that envy and spite can cause illness or even death. Witch-trials i...