TY - BOOK ID - 78142880 TI - Murder, magic, madness : the Victorian trials of Dove and the Wizard PY - 2014 SN - 1315835339 1317867564 1281384658 9786611384654 1408211599 9781317867562 9781315835334 0582894131 9780582894136 9780582894136 9781317867548 9781317867555 9781138407978 1317867556 9781281384652 6611384650 9781408211595 PB - London : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Murder KW - Witchcraft KW - Black art (Witchcraft) KW - Sorcery KW - Occultism KW - Wicca KW - Criminal homicide KW - Killing (Murder) KW - Homicide KW - History KW - Dove, William, KW - Harrison, Henry, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78142880 AB - In 1856 William Dove, a young tenant farmer, was tried and executed for the poisoning of his wife Harriet. The trial might have been a straightforward case of homicide, but because Dove became involved with Henry Harrison, a Leeds wizard, and demonstrated through his actions and words a strong belief in magic and the powers of the devil, considerable effort was made to establish whether these beliefs were symptomatic of insanity. It seems that Dove murdered his wife to hasten a prediction made by Harrison that he would remarry a more attractive and wealthy woman. Dove employed Harrison to p ER -