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The Bewitching of Anne Gunter: A Horrible and True Story of Deception,
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The Bewitching of Anne Gunter: A Horrible and True Story of Deception, Witchcraft, Murder, and the King of England Paperback - 2001

by James Sharpe


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In 1604, 20-year-old Anne Gunter was bewitched: she foamed at the mouth, contorted wildly in her bedchamber, went into trances. Her garters and bodices were perpetually unlacing themselves. Her signature symptom was to vomit pins and "she voided some pins downwards as well by her water or otherwise.." Popular history at its best, "The Bewitching of Anne Gunter" opens a fascinating window onto the past. It's a tale of controlling fathers, willful daughters, nosy neighbors, power relations between peasants and gentry, and village life in early-modern Europe. Above all it's an original and revealing story of one young woman's experience with the greatly misunderstood phenomenon of witchcraft. James Sharpe is Professor of History at York University and the author of "Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in" "Early Modern History" and other works of social history.

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ANNE WAS first interrogated on Sunday, 24 February 1606, at the Holborn Court of Gray's Inn.

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  • Title The Bewitching of Anne Gunter: A Horrible and True Story of Deception, Witchcraft, Murder, and the King of England
  • Author James Sharpe
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, Florence, Kentucky, U.S.A.
  • Date June 2001
  • ISBN 9780415926928 / 0415926920
  • Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.68 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.73 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects James, Great Britain - History - James I, 1603-1625
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99056590
  • Dewey Decimal Code 133
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