The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-hunting in the Western World

✍ Scribed by Demos, John

• Book ID: 107556514
• Publisher: Penguin Group US
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 284 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780670019991

✦ Synopsis

With the vision of a historian and the voice of a novelist, prize - winning author John Demos explores the social, cultural, and psychological roots of the scourge that is witch-hunting, both in the remote past and today. The Enemy Within chronicles the most prominent witch-hunts of the Western world - women and men who were targeted by suspicious neighbors and accused of committing horrific crimes by supernatural means - and shows how the fear of witchcraft has fueled recurrent cycles of accusation, persecution, and purging. A unique and fascinating book, it illumines the dark side of communities driven to rid themselves of perceived evil, no matter what the human cost.