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    The tragedy of local witch-hunts

    Jan 05, 2022 3 minutes

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    The Last Witches of England

    A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition

    John Callow

    Bloomsbury Academic 2021

    Hb, 333pp, £25, ISBN 9781788314398

    The Ruin of All Witches

    Life and Death in the New World

    Malcolm Gaskill

    Allen Lane 2021

    Hb, 336pp, £20, ISBN 9780241413388

    These two books have so much in common that they can readily be treated as two aspects of a single enterprise. Both are the work of very able and

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