Vorwort
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Autorentext

Diane Purkiss is Professor of English Literature and Fellow in English at Keble College Oxford. She has published widely on witches, fairies, ghosts and the history of the supernatural. She is currently working on a study of witches accused during the period of the trials who believed themselves to be performing magic.

Zusammenfassung
Seers, healers, shamans, sorcerers and witches appear in many traditions of the world, from the Baba Yaga of Eastern Europe to Bokwewa, the humpback magician of the Chippewa, from Merlin to the fox witches of Japan. Druids and wizards appear in many forms, good and diabolical, all explored here in epic tales of legend and myth.