Raising Spirits: How a Conjuror's Tale Was Transmitted across the Enlightenment (Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic)

by Jonathan Barry (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2013

  $85.55

  Despite supernatural scepticism, stories about spirits were regularly printed and shared throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. This case-study in the transmission of a single story (of a young gunsmith near Bristol conjuring spirits, leading to his early death) reveals both how and why successive generations found meaning in such accounts.