Being Bewitched : : A True Tale of Madness, Witchcraft, and Property Development Gone Wrong / / Kirsten C. Uszkalo.
In 1622, thirteen-year-old Elizabeth Jennings fell strangely ill. After doctors' treatments proved useless, her family began to suspect the child had been bewitched, a suspicion that was confirmed when Elizabeth accused their neighbor Margaret Russell of witchcraft. In the events that followed,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early Modern Studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Principal Dramatis Personæ
- Genealogical Charts
- Maps
- Chronology
- Introduction: "My mother sawe her in the kitchin"
- Chapter 1: The Background: Landed Power, Lunacy, and Libraries
- Chapter 2: Blood Evidence: Sickness in the Blood
- Chapter 3: Comparables: Familial Witchcraft
- Chapter 4: Models and Accusations for Being Bewitched
- Chapter 5: Tensions: Prohibitions and Projects
- Chapter 6: Tensions: Magics and Medicines
- Chapter 7: The New Suspect: The Apothecary
- Chapter 8: Witnesses and Persons of Interest, Bedside & Barside
- Chapter 9: Wrap Up: The Final Expert Assessment
- Chapter 10: Post-Bewitchment: Elizabeth Jenyns of St. Mary le Savoy
- Conclusion: "They had power over all them"
- Appendix 1: "Of Elizabeth Jennings being bewitched," 1622
- Appendix 2: Indictments, 27 October 1616 and 3 December 1616
- Appendix 3: Napier on Elizabeth Jennings, 1622
- Appendix 4: Napier on Bulbeck, Arpe, and Latch, 1623
- Appendix 5: John Latch's Signature, 1620, 1622
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author