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This study traces the history of witchcraft and magic from 1736 (the year of the Witchcraft Act) to the year 1951, when the passing of the Fraudulent Mediums Act finally erased the concept of witchcraft from the statute books.

Magic --- Witchcraft --- History. --- Great Britain --- History --- 291.33 --- 291.33 Directe invloed op de goddelijke wil: hekserij; bezweringen; magie, toverij --- Directe invloed op de goddelijke wil: hekserij; bezweringen; magie, toverij --- Black art (Witchcraft) --- Sorcery --- Occultism --- Wicca --- Magick --- Necromancy --- Spells

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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

Murder --- Witchcraft --- Black art (Witchcraft) --- Sorcery --- Occultism --- Wicca --- Criminal homicide --- Killing (Murder) --- Homicide --- History --- Dove, William, --- Harrison, Henry,

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Esoteric sciences --- History of civilization --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1999 --- England

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"The early nineteenth -century witnessed the birth of psychiatry, a new medical science that fundamentally changed how mental illness was labelled and understood. Troubled by Faith explores how psychiatrists not only thought they were agents of modernity but that they could also explain the occult mysteries of the past. They bristled with confidence that, in an era of unprecedented change, unlocking the secrets of the mind was essential to an ordered and progressive society. And a progressive society was one that did not believe in witches, ghosts, and fairies, and did not exhibit excited religious emotions and divine communications. Through examining the extensive psychiatric literature from Europe and America, Troubled by Faith charts how once widely- held popular beliefs were pathologized, and how this fundamentally impacted on the notion of criminal and legal responsibility. In the second half of the book, we listen to the voices of asylum patients as recorded in case books. The asylum was an extraordinary cultural space where under one roof prophets, messiahs, the bewitched, and the haunted mixed, and people wrestled with angels, devils, imps, and witches. It was a place filled with talk of infernal machines and sinister electrical forces. Whether seriously ill and deluded, or sane and lucid in their beliefs and imaginings, patients' experiences were, nevertheless, reflective of a society being transformed by technology and yet still rooted in the supernatural"--

Mental illness --- Psychiatry and religion --- Belief and doubt --- Psychiatric hospitals --- History --- History of human medicine --- Psychiatry --- History of civilization --- anno 1800-1899