
Possessed By the Devil
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With echoes of the Salem witch-hunt, this is a story of murder, of a community in crisis and of how the witchhunts that claimed over 50,000 lives in Europe played out on Irish shores. It plunges the reader into a world where magic was real and the power of the Devil felt, with disastrous consequences.
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Praise for first edition:'Possessed by the devil is erudite, accessible and very readable. Sneddon meticulously embeds his story in its wider British and European context as it unfolds, and brings a great deal of scholarship to bear on his tale ... as both a very good read and a genuinely fascinating (and overdue) excursion into Irish cultural history, it can be highly recommended.' -- Dr Johnn Gibney * <i>History Ireland</i> * 'Andrew Sneddon is bidding fair to become the leading expert on the trials for witchcraft in early modern Ireland ... Irish trials were, famously, few. That at Carrickfergus, County Antrim, in 1711, provoked by events on nearby Islandmagee, was the largest of them ... It is also one of the best-documented in the British Isles ... These qualities make it a very suitable subject for a book-length case- study, which Sneddon now richly provides' -- Prof. Ronald Hutton * <i>Irish Historical Studies</i> *
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Author's Notes
- Timeline of Events
- 1 A Well-Respected Woman
- 2 Arrival in Islandmagee, Co. Antrim
- 3 To Catch a Witch
- 4 Witchcraft
- 5 The Wheels of Justice
- 6 All the World is a Stage
- 7 Horror at Knowehead House
- 8 The Trial, 31 March 1711
- 9 A Political Witch-Hunt?
- 10 Denouement?
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Index
- Plate Section
- Copyright
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