Witch, Wicce, Mother Goose: The Rise and Fall of the Witch Hunts in Europe and North America
Back cover: `Lively and readable.  It is written in a style as personal and attractive as any I have encountered...It has just the right balance of magisterial detachment and personal insight.' Ronald Hutton, University of Bristol  The European and American witch hunts, including the Salem Trials, are one of the most notorious episodes in our history. So far, books on the hunts have offered quite narrow accounts of one period or religion. Witch Wicce Mother Goose shows instead the long cultural background of the hunts and the role of the individual and personal decision in producing or preventing witch trials.