Witchland: A Deadly Moral Panic in Seventeenth-Century Britain

From the bestselling author of Witchcraft, the captivating, compassionate account of a moral panic that swept across Britain during the English Civil War, leaving hundreds of so-called witches dead in its wake.

Predating the Salem witch trials by decades-though linked by ideology and, in some cases, by ancestry-these trials began in southeastern England and the Scottish Lowlands in the early 1640s and spread rapidly through Britain. Fueled by religiosity, misogyny, and the economic stresses ...