{"product_id":"witchcraft-a-history-in-thirteen-trails-by-marion-gibson","title":"Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trails by Marion Gibson","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"descriptionPanel___wCiv7\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"panelContent___B_vGb\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNational Bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA “thought-provoking and timely” (\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e, London) global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate a pattern of demonization and conspiratorial thinking that has profoundly shaped human history.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis “inventive and compelling” (\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, London) work of social history travels through thirteen witch trials across history, some famous—like the Salem witch trials—and some lesser-known: on Vardø island, Norway, in the 1620s, where an indigenous Sami woman was accused of murder; in France in 1731, during the country’s last witch trial, where a young woman was pitted against her confessor and cult leader; in Lesotho in 1948, where British colonial authorities executed local leaders. Exploring how witchcraft was feared, then decriminalized, and then reimagined as gendered persecution,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWitchcraft\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etakes on the intersections between gender and power, indigenous spirituality and colonial rule, political conspiracy and individual resistance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffering a striking, dramatic journey unspooling over centuries and across continents,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWitchcraft\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a “well-rounded insight into some of the strangest and cruelest moments in history” (Buzz Magazine), giving voice to those who have been silenced by history.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon and Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52871543521412,"sku":null,"price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0378\/1161\/7924\/files\/9781668002438_e73fb.jpg?v=1790044895","url":"https:\/\/basically-books-co.myshopify.com\/products\/witchcraft-a-history-in-thirteen-trails-by-marion-gibson","provider":"Basically Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}