Safe Return Doubtful

Should further incentive be necessary to read this informative and engaging book, the author is a professor at Exeter University specialising in Magical Literature. How very wonderful..

One of the reasons this succeeds where many have failed is by giving its attention to the lives of the women on trial rather than the men who sought to kill them. Gibson not only examines the trials, but also explores the historical context that led to them, how and why they occurred. Regardless of what society would think today at the time they were grounded in some sort of reasoning. The trials are in chronological order and from all around the world, beginning with the Malleus Maleficarum and finishing with Trump’s allegations against the Clintons and QAnon. She writes in her afterword..Demonology blurs the lines between witch and witch-hunter. These thirteen trials show how to spot the difference.

We might not like much of it, but it is perseptive insight into some of the most savage and inhuman moments in history.

Non-fiction – Published January 2023 – My GoodReads score 4 / 5