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04092aam a2200517 i 4500 001 137B5EE0AF2611EC897049F049ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220329010112 008 210413t20222022enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021012892 020 $a 1788314395 020 $a 9781788314398 035 $a (OCoLC)1179048097 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d TOH $d UKMGB $d ABB $d YDX $d GWL $d OCLCO $d YUS $d PAU $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-en 050 00 $a KD371.W56 $b C35 2022 100 1 $a Callow, John, $c Ph. D., $e author. 245 14 $a The last witches of England : $b a tragedy of sorcery and superstition / $c John Callow. 264 1 $a London ; $b Bloomsbury Academic, $c 2022. 300 $a xv, 333 pages: $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Fortune my foe -- England's golden bay -- An underground religion -- The stolen apple -- Blood and curses -- A fine gentleman dressed all in black -- The discourse of the sleepy chimney -- The politics of death -- Disenchantment -- At the house of the white witch -- Coda : where are the witches? 520 $a "On the morning of Thursday 29 June 1682, a magpie came rasping, rapping and tapping at the window of a prosperous Devon merchant. Frightened by its appearance, his servants and members of his family had, within a matter of hours, convinced themselves that the bird was an emissary of the devil sent by witches to destroy the fabric of their lives. As the result of these allegations, three women of Bideford came to be forever defined as witches. A Secretary of State brushed aside their case and condemned them to the gallows; to hang as the last group of women to be executed in England for the crime. Yet, the hatred of their neighbours endured. For Bideford, it was said, was a place of witches. Though 'pretty much worn away' the belief in witchcraft still lingered on for more than a century after their deaths. In turn, ignored, reviled, and extinguished but never more than half-forgotten, it seems that the memory of these three women - and of their deeds and sufferings, both real and imagined - was transformed from canker to regret, and from regret into celebration in our own age. Indeed, their example was cited during the final Parliamentary debates, in 1951, that saw the last of the witchcraft acts repealed, and their names were chanted, as both inspiration and incantation, by the women beyond the wire at Greenham Common. In this book, John Callow explores this remarkable reversal of fate, and the remarkable tale of the Bideford 'witches'"-- $c Provided by the publisher. 600 10 $a Lloyd, Temperance, $d -1682 $x Trials, litigation, etc. 600 10 $a Trembles, Mary, $d -1682 $x Trials, litigation, etc. 600 10 $a Edwards, Susanna, $d -1682 $x Trials, litigation, etc. 600 17 $a Edwards, Susanna, $d -1682. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01817059 600 17 $a Lloyd, Temperance, $d -1682. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01831176 600 17 $a Trembles, Mary, $d -1682. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01851679 650 0 $a Trials (Witchcraft) $z Devon $z Devon $x History $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Witch hunting $z Devon $z Devon $x History $y 17th century. 651 0 $a Bideford (England) $x History $y 17th century. 650 6 $a Proces (Sorcellerie) $z Devon $z Devon $x Histoire $y 17e siecle. 650 6 $a Chasse aux sorcieres $z Devon $z Devon $x Histoire $y 17e siecle. 650 7 $a LAW / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Trials (Witchcraft) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01156425 651 7 $a England $z Bideford. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01216752 651 7 $a England $z Devon. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206047 648 7 $a 1600-1699 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Trials, litigation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423712 776 08 $i Online version: $a Callow, John, $c Ph. D. $t Last witches of England $d London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021 $z 9781350196148 $w (DLC) 2021012893 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20230517011310.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=137B5EE0AF2611EC897049F049ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search