And Though This World With Devils Filled
Subtitle: A Story Of Sufferings (American University Studies Series VII, Theology and Religion)
Contributors: Michael Fell (Translator)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: March 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780820474915
Subjects: Religion; New Age / Body, Mind & Spirit; Philosophy; Magick Studies; Theology; 1610-1696; Iceland; Jon Magnusson,; Jâon Magnâusson,; Witchcraft
Description: "This book is mainly an English translation of Jon Magnusson's A Story of Sufferings. Magnusson, a seventeenth-century Lutheran priest in Iceland, endured intense physical and mental sufferings, which he attributed to the black magic of three alleged sorcerers. The two male sorcerers were tried, convicted, and burned to death, but the third (a woman) was acquitted. The work may have been written as material for appealing the acquittal of the woman to a higher court. This book also includes a historical introduction, a chronology of Jon Magnusson's life, and the rulings from the trials. Though hardly pleasant to read, A Story of Sufferings is a literary masterpiece in the original. It should be of interest to students of mystical religion and to historians of the witchcraft craze that plagued Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries."--Jacket.