Document Type
Book Review
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
Winter 2006
Journal or Book Title
Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft
Volume
1
Issue
2
First Page
249
Last Page
251
DOI
10.1353/mrw.0.0012
Abstract
This book, a revised second edition, appears under the imprimatur (one hopes not the nihil obstat) of the University of Wisconsin Press, which recently acquired the Popular Press line in which the book first appeared in 1972. The updating for the 2004 edition was surely not difficult. Since the book has no real structure or argument, snippets of new information, mainly references to Mel Gisbon’s film The Passion of the Christ or the Harry Potter books, could simply be tossed into the mix. None of the vast scholarship on witchcraft that has appeared in the last thirty years is taken into account, but then, the first edition did not reference any real scholarship either.
Rights
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Copyright Owner
University of Pennsylvania Press
Copyright Date
2006
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Bailey, Michael D., "Popular Witchcraft: Straight from the Witch’s Mouth (review)" (2006). History Publications. 32.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/history_pubs/32
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Comments
This is a book review from Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 1 (2006): 249, doi:10.1353/mrw.0.0012. Posted with permission.