Magic in the Middle Ages. Love spells, evil spells, sorcerers-healers and witch hunts
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Imagine living in medieval England. What to do if your precious spoons were stolen? If you are suffering from love - or unhappy in your marriage? If your loved ones have disappeared without a trace? Go to a sorcerer. After all, it was these masters of practical magic who helped in seemingly insoluble situations.
Their range of services was extremely wide. Find thieves and missing things, find love, win in court, take revenge on an offender, get rich quickly or find out the future - this is for them. In the Middle Ages and early modern times, when human life was hard and the world was permeated with uncertainty, magic served as a backup option in case something went wrong.
But things went “wrong” very often — and people stuck knives into a loaf of stale bread, told fortunes with a sieve and scissors, tested thieves with blessed cheese, sewed prayers to clothes and made dolls of neighbors from funeral wax...
Tabitha Stanmore's book is a fascinating guide to the world of practical magic in the European Middle Ages. Thanks to it, you will not only learn many supernatural solutions to more than natural problems, but also immerse yourself in the fears, hopes and desires of people of the past and be able to see life through their eyes.
Their range of services was extremely wide. Find thieves and missing things, find love, win in court, take revenge on an offender, get rich quickly or find out the future - this is for them. In the Middle Ages and early modern times, when human life was hard and the world was permeated with uncertainty, magic served as a backup option in case something went wrong.
But things went “wrong” very often — and people stuck knives into a loaf of stale bread, told fortunes with a sieve and scissors, tested thieves with blessed cheese, sewed prayers to clothes and made dolls of neighbors from funeral wax...
Tabitha Stanmore's book is a fascinating guide to the world of practical magic in the European Middle Ages. Thanks to it, you will not only learn many supernatural solutions to more than natural problems, but also immerse yourself in the fears, hopes and desires of people of the past and be able to see life through their eyes.
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