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Magic --- Magie --- History --- Histoire --- Magick --- Necromancy --- Sorcery --- Spells --- Occultism

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The essays in this volume examine the relationship of the Jacobean Witchcraft Act to the culture and society of seventeenth-century England. The book explores the potential influence of King James’s works and person on the framing of the Act, including the relationship of Shakespeare's MacBeth to these events, as well as the impact of the Darrell controversy on the shaping of witchcraft beliefs before the Act. It also asseses the impact of the legislation on society in various parts of the country, as well as examining how drama reflected the ideas found in the legislation. The volume concludes with a look at the reasons for its repeal in 1736. This work provides new interpretations of the influence and application of the 1604 Witchcraft Act by some of the world’s leading scholars of witchcraft. Contributors include: Jonathan Barry, Jo Bath, Roy Booth, Chris Brooks, Owen Davies, Malcolm Gaskill, Marion Gibson, Clive Holmes, P. G. Maxwell-Stuart, John Newton, and Tom Webster.

Witchcraft --- History --- Great Britain. --- 133.4 --- Black art (Witchcraft) --- Sorcery --- Occultism --- Wicca --- Occulte werking. Magie. Toverij --- 133.4 Occulte werking. Magie. Toverij --- Witchcraft - England - History - 16th century - Congresses --- Witchcraft - England - History - 17th century - Congresses --- Hexenglaube --- Hexenverfolgung --- Geschichte 1604-1736 --- England

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"Presents and analyzes texts of learned magic written in medieval Central Europe (Poland, Bohemia, and Hungary), and attempts to identify their authors, readers, and collectors"--Provided by publisher.

Book history --- Esoteric sciences --- Eastern and Central Europe --- Magic --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Manuscripts --- 091:133 --- 133.4 --- 091 <4-11> --- 133.430902 --- Handschriften i.v.m. occulte wetenschap --- Occulte werking. Magie. Toverij --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Oost-Europa --- Philosophy & psychology Magic and witchcraft (500 - 1500) --- 091 <4-11> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Oost-Europa --- 133.4 Occulte werking. Magie. Toverij --- 091:133 Handschriften i.v.m. occulte wetenschap --- Medieval manuscripts --- Magick --- Necromancy --- Sorcery --- Spells --- Occultism --- Magic - Manuscripts

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These days, development inspires scant trust in the West. For critics who condemn centralized efforts to plan African societies as latter day imperialism, such plans too closely reflect their roots in colonial rule and neoliberal economics. But proponents of this pessimistic view often ignore how significant this concept has become for Africans themselves. In 'Bewitching Development', James Howard Smith presents a close ethnographic account of how people in the Taita Hills of Kenya have appropriated and made sense of development thought and practice, focusing on the complex ways that development connects with changing understandings of witchcraft. Similar to magic, development's promise of a better world elicits both hope and suspicion from Wataita. Smith shows that the unforeseen changes wrought by development& greater wealth for some, dashed hopes for many more& foster moral debates that Taita people express in occult terms. By carefully chronicling the beliefs and actions of this diverse community& from frustrated youths to nostalgic seniors, duplicitous preachers to thought-provoking witch doctors& 'Bewitching' 'Development' vividly depicts the social life of formerly foreign ideas and practices in postcolonial Africa.

Taita (African people) --- Witchcraft --- Economic development --- Taita (Peuple d'Afrique) --- Sorcellerie --- Développement économique --- Social life and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Rites et cérémonies --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Social life and customs. --- Taita Hills (Kenya) --- Economic conditions. --- Développement économique --- Rites et cérémonies --- Black art (Witchcraft) --- Sorcery --- Occultism --- Wicca --- Dabida (African people) --- Davida (African people) --- Dawida (African people) --- Kidabida (African people) --- Kitaita (African people) --- Taita (Bantu tribe) --- Teita (African people) --- Wataita (African people) --- Ethnology --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Teita Hills (Kenya)

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Witchcraft --- Christianity and culture --- Magic --- Occultism --- Spiritual healing --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Africa --- Religion --- 291.33 --- 397 <6> --- Divine healing --- Faith-cure --- Faith healing --- Spiritual therapies --- Healing --- Miracles --- 291.33 Directe invloed op de goddelijke wil: hekserij; bezweringen; magie, toverij --- Directe invloed op de goddelijke wil: hekserij; bezweringen; magie, toverij --- Art, Black (Magic) --- Arts, Black (Magic) --- Black art (Magic) --- Black arts (Magic) --- Occult, The --- Occult sciences --- Supernatural --- New Age movement --- Parapsychology --- Magick --- Necromancy --- Sorcery --- Spells --- 397 <6> Primitieve volkeren. Nomaden. Rassen. Tribus: gewoontes. Gebruiken--Afrika --- Primitieve volkeren. Nomaden. Rassen. Tribus: gewoontes. Gebruiken--Afrika --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Religion. --- Witchcraft - Africa --- Christianity and culture - Africa --- Magic - Africa - Religious aspects - Christianity --- Occultism - Africa - Religious aspects - Christianity --- Africa - Religion --- sorcellerie --- univers religieux chrétien --- religion --- l'Afrique --- tradition et modernité --- mutations sociales --- mutations religieuses --- mutations politiques --- la bible --- symbolisme --- la résurrection de Christ --- l'eucharistie --- lieux sacrés --- communautés chrétiennes