Urban Witch Trials

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 01 Jun 2009Embargo end date: 01 Jan 2009 Switzerland English Publisher:Project MUSEJournal:Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, volume 4, pages 82-89 (eissn: 1940-5111,

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Authors: Roeck, B;

doi: 10.1353/mrw.0.0124 , 10.5167/uzh-27503

Urban Witch Trials

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Abstract

This essay compares witchcraft beliefs and witch-hunting structures in urban areas of the early modern German empire and rural areas. It concludes that, although urban witch hunts certainly did occur, overall witchcraft and the persecution of witches was a predominantly rural phenomenon.

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Switzerland

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University of Zurich
Switzerland

Keywords

10109 Institute of History, 900 History

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