{"collection":"Paganism & Neopaganism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/pag/twp/index.htm","path":"pag/twp/index.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/pag/twp/index.htm","text":"From TRANSLATIONS AND REPRINTS FROM THE ORIGINAL SOURCES OF EUROPEAN HISTORY. VOL. III. No. 4.\nEdited by George L. Burr.\n[1896]\nThis is a survey of primary sources for the history of the\nwitch persecutions.\nWritten late in the 19th Century,\nthis collection epitomizes\npre-Murray scholarship on this subject.\nIt doesn't attempt any analysis of the roots of the phenomena other than\nclerical abuse and mass insanity.\nMost importantly, these texts give insight into the cascading paranoia\nwhich characterizes witch hunts of any historical period.","title":"The Witch Persecutions index","type":"page"}