Autorentext

Steven Veerapen was born in Glasgow to a Scottish mother and a Mauritian father and raised in Paisley. Pursuing an interest in the sixteenth century, he was awarded a first-class Honours degree in English, focussing his dissertation on representations of Henry VIII's six wives. He is the author of The Wisest Fool: The Lavish Life of James VI and I, and lives in Glasgow.

Klappentext

Witches have been culturally relevant for centuries, but where did our perception of witches - good and bad - come from? Steven Veerapen traces witches, witchcraft, and witch-hunters from the explosion of mass-trials under King James VI and I in the late sixteenth century to the death of the witch-hunting phenomenon in the early eighteenth century.