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An exclusive peek at The Folio Society's new edition of "Perdido Street Station"
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of China Miéville's groundbreaking novel Perdido Street Station, The Folio Society is ...
How do you spot a witch? This notorious 15th-century book gave instructions – and helped execute thousands of women
As fear of witches reached a fever pitch in Europe, witch hunters turned to the “Malleus Maleficarum,” or “Hammer of Witches, ...
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Six spellbinding facts about the European Witch Craze
3. There was a best-selling handbook on how to hunt witches Malleus Maleficarum (which meant the Hammer of Witches) was published in 1487 by a German monk called Heinrich Kramer. It argued that ...