Marion Gibson

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About The Author

Marion Gibson is a bestselling author and historian of witchcraft and magic. In addition to her first trade book, Witchcraft, Marion has published eight academic books on witches in history and literature, edited five books, and published many articles on witches and magic. Emerita Professor of Renaissance and Magical Literatures at the University of Exeter, she lives in Devonshire, England.

Books by Marion Gibson

Witchland

A Tale of Witch Hunting and War in Seventeenth-Century Britain

By Marion Gibson

'No historian before Marion Gibson has managed to convey so well the lived reality of British witch trials at the local level. This is as close to an eye-witness view of them as we are likely to get' Ronald Hutton, author of The Witch

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Witchcraft

A History in Thirteen Trials

By Marion Gibson
'These stories of witchcraft, true and vividly told, demonstrate the potent reality of belief in evil and how in any era or place fear can be weaponised and marginal people, mostly women, labelled as wicked and dangerous. Together they comprise not just a history of witchcraft but a cau...
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