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Author Brown, Peter C., author.

Title Essex Witches / Peter Brown.

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : The History Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (160 pages)
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Summary Medieval folk had long suspected that the Devil was carrying out his work on earth with the help of his minions. In 1484, Pope Innocent VIII declared this to be true, which resulted in witch-hunts across Europe which lasted for nearly 200 years. In 1645, England (notably Essex) was in the grip of witch fever. Between 1560 and 1680 in Essex alone 317 women and 23 men were tried for witchcraft, and over 100 were hanged. Essex Witches recounts many of the local common folk who were tried in the courts for their beliefs and practice in herbal remedies and potions, and for causing, often by their familiars, the deaths of neighbors and even family members, and had meted out the harshest penalties for their sorcery and demonic ways.
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Subject HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain.
Occultism -- England -- Essex.
Witchcraft -- England -- Essex -- History.
Essex (England) -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Brown, Peter C. Essex witches. Stroud, Gloucestershire : The History Press, 2014. 9780752499802 (DLC)2015513080
Standard No. 9780750957953
ISBN 9780750957953 (e-pub)
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