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The Once & Future Witch Hunt
- Author
- Alice Markham-Cantor
- Narrator
- Rebecca Gallagher
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 8 May 2024
- Run Time
- 11 hours 25 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Extensively researched and told through alternating fiction and nonfiction chapters, this book illuminates a shocking truth: contrary to popular opinion, the witch hunts never ended. Alice shares research that suggests tens of thousands of witch hunt–related deaths have happened all over the world in the last thirty years. The Once & Future Witch Hunt also features tantalizing glimpses into Alice's ancestors' lives and reimagines the trials through fact-based fiction.
At the intersection of witchcraft, feminism, anthropology, and history, this book gives us as authentic a retelling as may ever be possible while trying to answer that single, irrepressible question: how could this have happened?
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Details
- Author
- Alice Markham-Cantor
- Narrator
- Rebecca Gallagher
- Duration
- 11 hours 25 minutes
- Release Date
- 8 May 2024
- ISBN
- 9798855533521
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Witchcraft and wicca, Witchcraft, Religion and beliefs, History of religion, History
Synopsis
As the descendant of Martha Carrier, an accused woman executed at Salem, Alice Markham-Cantor presents a riveting story that spans centuries and brings the historical significance of the witch trials into modern times.Extensively researched and told through alternating fiction and nonfiction chapters, this book illuminates a shocking truth: contrary to popular opinion, the witch hunts never ended. Alice shares research that suggests tens of thousands of witch hunt–related deaths have happened all over the world in the last thirty years. The Once & Future Witch Hunt also features tantalizing glimpses into Alice's ancestors' lives and reimagines the trials through fact-based fiction.At the intersection of witchcraft, feminism, anthropology, and history, this book gives us as authentic a retelling as may ever be possible while trying to answer that single, irrepressible question: how could this have happened?
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