{"product_id":"witchcraft","title":"Witchcraft","description":"\u003cp\u003eBook Written by Marion Gibson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeasures 8.5” x 5.5”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e”\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eA ‘thought-provoking and timely’ (The Times, 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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis ‘inventive and compelling’ (The Times Literary Supplement, 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.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51605870444790,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0008\/8955\/2953\/files\/Simon-and-Schuster-Witchcraft-by-Marion-Gibson-Book.jpg?v=1788998912","url":"https:\/\/www.foldgoods.com\/products\/witchcraft","provider":"FOLD goods","version":"1.0","type":"link"}