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Creative histories of witchcraft

France, 1790-1940

by Poppy Corbett, Anna Kisby Compton & William Pooley

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Language: English

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This Element explores a different set of imaginative techniques to address the fundamental challenge of understanding magic in the past: creative practices, including poetry, drama, and other forms of creative writing. The Element draws on the collaborative project 'Creative Histories of Witchcraft: France, 1790-1940', which brought together a poet (Anna Kisby Compton), a playwright (Poppy Corbett) and a historian (Will Pooley) to explore cases of witchcraft from across this long period. In what follows, we explain our project and how we did it, providing hands-on exercises for other researchers, creative practitioners, and teachers to try out for themselves — -

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ritual magic and grimoires and Witchcraft and folk magic.

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the description and “Magic” in the subject metadata.

    • “Magic”· in description
    • “Magic”· in subject
  • Witchcraft and folk magic

    Controlled discovery queries from harvard matched “witchcraft”. Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the title, “Witchcraft” in the description, “Witchcraft” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • “witchcraft”· via Harvard LibraryCloud
    • “Witchcraft”· in title
    • “Witchcraft”· in description
    • “Witchcraft”· in subject
    • “Witchcraft”· in edition title

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France, 1790-1940

Harvard LibraryCloud bibliographic record

81 pages ; 23 cm.

2022Cambridge University PressEnglish
  • 9781009221030
  • 9781009221054
  • 9781009221078
  • 1009221035
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