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Whitchcraft, Lycanthropy, Drugs, and Disease: an Anthropological Study of the European Witch-hunts 2nd Revised ed. Edition
Author(s): Homayun Sidky (Author)
- Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Publication Date: 20 Aug. 2004
- Edition: 2nd Revised ed.
- Language: English
- Print length: 330 pages
- ISBN-10: 0820433543
- ISBN-13: 9780820433547
Book Description
More gruesome than any horror novel, this study proves that truth is indeed stranger and more brutal than fiction. Over 100,000 people were tortured, maimed and burned alive in the witch hunts of the early modern period. Sidky (Miami University, Ohio) discusses the how and why of these events, covering accusations of cannibalism, the fear that accompanied the plague, the methods and motives of torture, demonic possession, hallucinogenic drugs, werewolves, and the use of the witchhunt and terror as a form of social control. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
