Witchcraft and Witch-hunts in History (nonfiction)

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Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft
Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft 3.75 avg rating — 1,371 ratings
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The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft
The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft 4.24 avg rating — 2,135 ratings
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The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry Into the Salem Witch Trials
The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry Into the Salem Witch Trials 3.60 avg rating — 939 ratings
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The Salem Witch Trials Reader
The Salem Witch Trials Reader 3.67 avg rating — 224 ratings
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The Spanish Inquisition: A History
The Spanish Inquisition: A History 3.46 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr
Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr 3.55 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Grimoires: A History of Magic Books
Grimoires: A History of Magic Books 4.03 avg rating — 604 ratings
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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England 3.80 avg rating — 2,018 ratings
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A Brief History of Witchcraft
A Brief History of Witchcraft 3.40 avg rating — 210 ratings
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The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege
The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege 3.82 avg rating — 612 ratings
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The Penguin Book of Witches
The Penguin Book of Witches 3.54 avg rating — 1,560 ratings
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The Witchcraft Reader
The Witchcraft Reader 3.89 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy
Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy 3.27 avg rating — 1,011 ratings
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The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World
The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World 3.56 avg rating — 359 ratings
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Signs, Cures, and Witchery: German Appalachian Folklore
Signs, Cures, and Witchery: German Appalachian Folklore 4.19 avg rating — 52 ratings
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In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial 4.06 avg rating — 21,523 ratings
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Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England 3.78 avg rating — 334 ratings
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In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 3.67 avg rating — 1,460 ratings
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The Malleus Maleficarum
The Malleus Maleficarum 3.16 avg rating — 2,829 ratings
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MALLEUS MALEFICARUM OR THE HAMMER OF WITCHES (The most famous witch-hunt manuals) - Annotated Wicca, Witchcraft and paganism
MALLEUS MALEFICARUM OR THE HAMMER OF WITCHES (The most famous witch-hunt manuals) - Annotated Wicca, Witchcraft and paganism 3.16 avg rating — 2,829 ratings
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Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc 3.47 avg rating — 583 ratings
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Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation 4.56 avg rating — 12,675 ratings
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The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe
The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe 3.92 avg rating — 747 ratings
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Traditional Witchcraft and the Pagan Revival: A Magical Anthropology
Traditional Witchcraft and the Pagan Revival: A Magical Anthropology really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Inquisition
Inquisition 3.54 avg rating — 279 ratings
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Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem
Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem 3.63 avg rating — 3,344 ratings
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The Dictionary of Magic & Mystery
The Dictionary of Magic & Mystery 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England: A Regional and Comparative Study
Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England: A Regional and Comparative Study 3.65 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England 4.17 avg rating — 1,546 ratings
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Salem-Village Witchcraft: A Documentary Record of Local Conflict in Colonial New England
Salem-Village Witchcraft: A Documentary Record of Local Conflict in Colonial New England really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Magic, Mystery, and Science: The Occult in Western Civilization
Magic, Mystery, and Science: The Occult in Western Civilization 3.92 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Witch Cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology
The Witch Cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology 3.39 avg rating — 373 ratings
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The Witches' Advocate: Basque Witchcraft and the Spanish Inquisition (1609-1614)
The Witches' Advocate: Basque Witchcraft and the Spanish Inquisition (1609-1614) 4.07 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The European Witch Craze of the 16th and 17th Centuries
The European Witch Craze of the 16th and 17th Centuries 3.52 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany
Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany 3.98 avg rating — 345 ratings
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The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 4.01 avg rating — 1,230 ratings
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Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft
Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft 3.76 avg rating — 298 ratings
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A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials
A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials 3.73 avg rating — 1,619 ratings
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Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,140 ratings
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Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment: Scotland, 1670 - 1740
Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment: Scotland, 1670 - 1740 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Hall of Mirrors: Power, Witchcraft, and Caste in Colonial Mexico
Hall of Mirrors: Power, Witchcraft, and Caste in Colonial Mexico 3.70 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Exorcising Our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft, and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe (Studies in Medieval & Reformation Thought, 91)
Exorcising Our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft, and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe (Studies in Medieval & Reformation Thought, 91) it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Stolen Lightning: Social Theory of Magic
Stolen Lightning: Social Theory of Magic
by: OKEEFE,
3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Mrs Darley's Pagan Paths to Magick
Mrs Darley's Pagan Paths to Magick 4.65 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Donde reside la Brujería
Donde reside la Brujería 4.25 avg rating — 106 ratings
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The Trial of Tempel Anneke: Records of a Witchcraft Trial in Brunswick, Germany, 1663
The Trial of Tempel Anneke: Records of a Witchcraft Trial in Brunswick, Germany, 1663 3.58 avg rating — 221 ratings
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The Devils of Loudun
The Devils of Loudun 3.86 avg rating — 3,447 ratings
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Czarownice. Dzieje procesów o czary
Czarownice. Dzieje procesów o czary 3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts
Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts 3.85 avg rating — 635 ratings
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The Devils of Loudun
The Devils of Loudun
by: Des Niau
3.17 avg rating — 24 ratings
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A Cavalcade of Witches
A Cavalcade of Witches 3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts 3.63 avg rating — 14,858 ratings
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The Witch and the Wildwood: Folk Wisdom, Fairy Tale & Fantastic Lore
The Witch and the Wildwood: Folk Wisdom, Fairy Tale & Fantastic Lore 4.18 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Witch Hunts in the Western World: Persecution and Punishment from the Inquisition through the Salem Trials
Witch Hunts in the Western World: Persecution and Punishment from the Inquisition through the Salem Trials 4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Night Has a Naked Soul: Witchcraft and Sorcery Among the Western Cherokee
The Night Has a Naked Soul: Witchcraft and Sorcery Among the Western Cherokee 3.81 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Más allá de la escoba
Más allá de la escoba 4.09 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Witches, Werewolves, and Fairies: Shapeshifters and Astral Doubles in the Middle Ages
Witches, Werewolves, and Fairies: Shapeshifters and Astral Doubles in the Middle Ages 3.95 avg rating — 256 ratings
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Witch Country (RWW): Seeking the Witch in the British Landscape
Witch Country (RWW): Seeking the Witch in the British Landscape 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Saint Joan of Arc
Saint Joan of Arc 3.87 avg rating — 269 ratings
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The Coarse Witchcraft Trilogy
The Coarse Witchcraft Trilogy 4.26 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Dark Arts: A History of Satanism, Witchcraft and Sorcery in the Middle Ages
Dark Arts: A History of Satanism, Witchcraft and Sorcery in the Middle Ages 3.69 avg rating — 846 ratings
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Highland Superstitions Connected with the Druids, Fairies, Witchcraft, Second-Sight, Halloween, Sacred Wells and Lochs
Highland Superstitions Connected with the Druids, Fairies, Witchcraft, Second-Sight, Halloween, Sacred Wells and Lochs 3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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A case of witchcraft: The trail of Urbain Grandier
A case of witchcraft: The trail of Urbain Grandier really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads
Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Pagan Portals - Spellbook & Candle: Cursing, Hexing, Bottling & Binding
Pagan Portals - Spellbook & Candle: Cursing, Hexing, Bottling & Binding 3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic
The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic 3.88 avg rating — 178 ratings
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The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present 3.63 avg rating — 1,644 ratings
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Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the End of the Renaissance
Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the End of the Renaissance 3.92 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Deed Without a Name, A
Deed Without a Name, A 4.22 avg rating — 297 ratings
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Selling Salem's Witches: An Ethnography of a New England Tourist Town
Selling Salem's Witches: An Ethnography of a New England Tourist Town liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution
The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution 3.82 avg rating — 632 ratings
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The Witchcraft of Salem Village
The Witchcraft of Salem Village 3.80 avg rating — 4,610 ratings
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Lucrecia's Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain
Lucrecia's Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain 3.67 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Vexed with Devils: Manhood and Witchcraft in Old and New England (Early American Places, 6)
Vexed with Devils: Manhood and Witchcraft in Old and New England (Early American Places, 6) 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Kepler's Witch: An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother
Kepler's Witch: An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother 3.67 avg rating — 486 ratings
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Christianity: A Global History
Christianity: A Global History 3.80 avg rating — 168 ratings
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The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England
The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England 3.61 avg rating — 127 ratings
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American Witches: A Broomstick Tour Through Four Centuries
American Witches: A Broomstick Tour Through Four Centuries 3.64 avg rating — 1,052 ratings
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A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience 3.84 avg rating — 1,319 ratings
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The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland
The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland 4.46 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Witch-hunting in England
Witch-hunting in England liked it 3.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Witch-Hunting In Seventeenth-Century New England: A Documentary History, 1638-1693
Witch-Hunting In Seventeenth-Century New England: A Documentary History, 1638-1693 3.80 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Witches and Witchcraft: A History
Witches and Witchcraft: A History 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Cunning-Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic
Cunning-Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic 4.40 avg rating — 277 ratings
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Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath
Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath 4.15 avg rating — 502 ratings
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Witchcraft and Magic in Ireland
Witchcraft and Magic in Ireland 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Spellbound: Woman and Witchcraft in America (The Worlds of Women Series)
Spellbound: Woman and Witchcraft in America (The Worlds of Women Series) 3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Malevolent Nurture: Witch-Hunting and Maternal Power in Early Modern England
Malevolent Nurture: Witch-Hunting and Maternal Power in Early Modern England 3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Witches: Salem, 1692
The Witches: Salem, 1692 3.25 avg rating — 23,705 ratings
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Witches of America
Witches of America
by: Alex Mar
3.25 avg rating — 2,356 ratings
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The World of the Witches
The World of the Witches 3.76 avg rating — 227 ratings
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Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials 3.43 avg rating — 2,158 ratings
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The Lancashire Witch Craze: Jennet Preston and the Lancashire Witches
The Lancashire Witch Craze: Jennet Preston and the Lancashire Witches 3.95 avg rating — 64 ratings
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America Bewitched: The Story of Witchcraft After Salem
America Bewitched: The Story of Witchcraft After Salem 3.62 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction
Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction 3.49 avg rating — 649 ratings
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Witchcraft and Welfare: Spiritual Capital and the Business of Magic in Modern Puerto Rico
Witchcraft and Welfare: Spiritual Capital and the Business of Magic in Modern Puerto Rico 3.66 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Witchcraft in Old and New England 1929
Witchcraft in Old and New England 1929 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Witchcraft and Black Magic
Witchcraft and Black Magic 3.49 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Water Witching U.S.A.
Water Witching U.S.A. really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Spiritualism Identical With Ancient Sorcery, New Testament Demonology, And Modern Witchcraft
Spiritualism Identical With Ancient Sorcery, New Testament Demonology, And Modern Witchcraft did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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