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The Witch-Family in Elizabethan and Jacobean Print Culture.

This paper argues that a new stereotype about witches emerged in print culture beginning in the late sixteenth century and intensifying during the early decades of the seventeenth century. This new image--of the witch as member of a witch-family--deserves recognition along with more familiar stereot...

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Published in:Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 4 - 32
Main Author: WILLIS, DEBORAH
Format: Article
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press 2013
Subjects:
Witches
Witchcraft
Print culture
Stereotypes
Covens
Reign of Elizabeth I, England, 1558-1603
Tudor Period, Great Britain, 1485-1603
Early modern English literature
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