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Scientists and witches

The Last Witch Craze

John Aubrey, the Royal Society and the Witches

Tony McAleavy

Amberley 2022

Hb, 287pp, £20, ISBN 9781445698427

One of the features of the past few years has been a boom in good local studies of witch trials and beliefs, produced by academic and independent scholarsbetween witchcraft beliefs and the new experimental science of the late 17th century.

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