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Aspects of English Witchcraft

Archive File: LAVC/SRP/1/063

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Aspects of English Witchcraft

Level: File

Classmark: LAVC/SRP/1/063

Creator(s): Hagger, C S L

Site Location(s): Subject - Lancaster, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom( 54.0465, -2.79988 ); Subject - Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.2468, 0.71825 ); Subject - Bideford, Devon, England, United Kingdom( 51.0168, -4.20832 ); Subject - Salem, Massachusetts, United States of America( 42.5195, -70.8967 ); Subject - Essex, England, United Kingdom( 51.7845, 0.57449 ); Subject - Surrey, England, United Kingdom( 51.2479, -0.4206 )

Date(s): 1964

Size and medium: 168 unbound typed leaves.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/409959

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

M.A. dissertation (Department of English Literature) on witchcraft in England and New England, focussing on what people have felt, said, written or done about it. In doing this a summary is given of the nature of English witchcraft persecution, to indicate a continuity of social and psychological impulse from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the present day.


The dissertation is divided into three parts, the first being a survey of scholarly opinions, ranging from the credulous to the sceptical. The second gives accounts of six representative witchcraft trials, in Lancaster (1612), Essex (1645), Bury St. Edmunds (1665), Biddiford(1682), Salem (1692) and Surrey (1702). The third part looks briefly at the ways in which witchcraft has been treated as a part of drama and fiction.


A typescript sheet is inserted at the back of the thesis. This outlines a series of four talks, entitled 'Yorkshire Customs and Traditions', given by John Widdowson in Bradford Central Library in May 19??

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