Getting It Wrong: The Problems with Reinventing the Past

This article is an examination of recent best-selling fictions and television adaptations which portray the history of witchcraft, often using outmoded historical theses, and often falsifying the known life histories of actual convicted witches. This article argues that these fictions, marked by pro...

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Subtitles:Special Issue: Paganism, art, and fashion
Main Author: Purkiss, Diane 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publ. [2019]
In: The pomegranate
Year: 2019, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 256-277
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Witchcraft / Magic / History / Neopaganism
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
AZ New religious movements
TA History
Further subjects:B Reinvention
B Television
B Witches
B Antisemitism
B Contemporary Pagans
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