Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany

by Lyndal Roper

Book Overview

A powerful account of witches, crones, and the societies that make them From the gruesome ogress in Hansel and Gretel to the hags at the sabbath in Faust , the witch has been a powerful figure of the Western imagination. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries thousands of women confessed to being witches--of making pacts with the Devil, causing babies to sicken, and killing animals and crops--and were put to death. This book is a gripping account...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300119836
• ISBN13: 9780300119831
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.2"