American Witches (eBook)

A Broomstick Tour through Four Centuries

Susan Fair (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
336 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
9781510703810 (ISBN)

Infos

The history of American witches is way weirder than you ever imagined. From bewitched pigs hell-bent on revenge to gruesome twentieth-century murders, American Witches reveals strange incidents of witchcraft that have long been swept under the rug as bizarre sidenotes to history.On a tour through history thats both whimsical and startling, well encounter seventeenth-century children flying around inside their New England home like geese. Well meet a father-son team of pious Puritans who embarked on a mission that involved undressing ladies and overseeing hangings. And on the eve of the Civil War, well accompany a reporter as he dons a dress and goes searching for witches in New York Citys most dangerous neighborhoods.Entertainingly readable and rich in amazing details often left out of todays texts, American Witches casts a flickering torchlight into the dark corners of American history.

Autor

Susan Fair is most at home exploring the crossroads of weirdness and history. She has written for a number of outlets, including Blue Ridge Country, the Gettysburg Experience, Cryptomundo, the Rumpus, and several newspapers. She is the author of Mysteries & Lore of Western Maryland. She works for a public library and at the Boonsboro Museum of History, which houses relics of weird history, including an actual witch’s spell book. Susan lives on the shoulder of South Mountain in western Maryland.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.8.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Schlagworte: accusations • agnostic • Alchemy • alexs • alse • america started • belief systems • bewitched • Blair Witch • boring history • Broomstick • cemeteries • culture type • Deck • Demos • Documentary • Edelweiss • exploitative • family settled • fantastical tales • feri • hateful comments • history intriguing • history lessons • hocus pocus • Indians • Initiation • interview subjects • Karina • laymen terms native american • MAR • margot adler • modern day • modern pagan • Modern Paganism • modern voice • modern witchcraft • Morpheus • necromancer • necromancy • neopagans • non-pagan • oaths • obese woman • Occult • occultists • Ocker • Orleans • pagan belief • Pagan Community • Pagans • pendulous • Practitioners • Prayers • proper educated • question human • ran rampant • Religions • salem massachusetts • salem witch • seriously thinking • slower reads • society outcasts • spellbook • Spells • Spirituality • spiritual questioning • star reviewers • subject matter • Tarot • Tourism • tourist traps • Travel Guide • travelogue rituals • Voodoo • wax museums • Wicca • wiccan • witchcraft history • witchery • witch project • witchy tales • woman dancing
• ISBN-13: 9781510703810 / 9781510703810