Witchcraft in Exeter 1558 – 1660

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The ancient city of Exeter is the last place in England where people are known to have been hanged for the alleged crime of ‘witchcraft’. In this book, Mark Stoyle – Author and Professor of early modern History at the University of Southampton – tells the stories of some of the unfortunate men and women who were denounced to the city magistrates as ‘witches’ between 1558 and 1660: the period during which the great majority of English witch-prosecutions occurred. Following the progress of each case from accusation, to imprisonment, to trial, to ultimate sentence – and, sometimes, all the way up to the gallows itself – the book sheds powerful new light on occult belief in Tudor and Stuart Exeter, and on the dark, uneasy world of the urban ‘witch’.

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