Description
| Product ID: | 9781845887452 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Possessed By the Devil |
| Subtitle: | The Real History of the Islandmagee Witches and Ireland’s only Mass Witchcraft Trial |
| Authors: | Author: Dr Andrew Sneddon |
| Subjects: | European history, British & Irish history, History, History, Social and cultural history, Witchcraft, Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge, Gender studies: women and girls, Local history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Social & cultural history, Witchcraft, Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge, Gender studies: women, Local history, Northern Ireland, c 1700 to c 1800 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating An updated and expanded edition examining Ireland's onyl mass witchcraft trial and the effect it had on Islandmagee's residents years after the trial In 1711, in County Antrim, eight women were put on trial accused of orchestrating the demonic possession of young Mary Dunbar, and the haunting and supernatural murder of a local clergyman’s wife. Mary Dunbar was the star witness in this trial, and the women were, by the standards of the time, believable witches – they smoked, they drank, they just did not look right. With echoes of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and the Salem witch-hunt, this is a story of murder, of hysteria, and of how the ‘witch craze’ that claimed over 40,000 lives in Europe played out on Irish shores. |
| Imprint Name: | Nonsuch Publishing |
| Publisher Name: | The History Press Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2013-05-15 |
