The Witch : A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present

為什麼全世界的社會都害怕巫術？這本書深入探討了它的背景、信仰和歐洲歷史的起源。現代早期的歐洲，女巫出了名，時常是痛苦的死亡，但她的起源在地理上更加多樣而且歷史悠久。在這本具有里程碑意義的書中，羅納德·赫頓（Ronald Hutton）追溯了從古代世界到早期現代木樁的巫術。這本書以最廣泛和最深入的視角設置了臭名昭著的歐洲巫婆審判，並追溯了巫術的主要史學發展。

赫頓（Hutton）是古代，中世紀和現代異教和巫術信仰的著名專家，結合英美和大陸學術方法來研究對巫術的態度以及全世界（包括非洲、中東、南亞）對可疑巫婆的待遇，澳大利亞以及北美和南美，以及從古代異教時代到現在的解釋。他嶄新的人類學和人種學方法著重於文化的傳承和變化，同時考慮薩滿教，民間宗教，巫婆審判的範圍以及如何消除對巫術的恐懼

Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe's history The witch came to prominence-and often a painful death-in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep. In this landmark book, Ronald Hutton traces witchcraft from the ancient world to the early-modern stake. This book sets the notorious European witch trials in the widest and deepest possible perspective and traces the major historiographical developments of witchcraft.

Hutton, a renowned expert on ancient, medieval, and modern paganism and witchcraft beliefs, combines Anglo-American and continental scholarly approaches to examine attitudes on witchcraft and the treatment of suspected witches across the world, including in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, Australia, and North and South America, and from ancient pagan times to current interpretations. His fresh anthropological and ethnographical approach focuses on cultural inheritance and change while considering shamanism, folk religion, the range of witch trials, and how the fear of witchcraft might be eradicated

Ronald Hutton (Author) 

Publisher:Yale University Press; 

ISBN:   978-0300238679