Witches for Spooky Season

That Book was BONKERS

English - October 15, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 41.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
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This month we did something a little different. Linnea and Reidan read On Witchcraft by Cotton Mather, and Jessica and Manik read Malleus Maleficarum by Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger.

We discussed Cotton Mather's interminable sentences (and sermons!), Malleus's more metal moments, including a tree full of dongs (I kid you not), and the surprising origins of inoculation in the American Colonies.

Recommendations and stuff we mentioned:

* The King Missile song Detachable Penis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIUk08iYZKE

* The CW show Reign, now on Netflix

* Brookland by Emily Barton

* A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

* The VVitch (A24 films) (2015)

* Season 1 of the Unobscured podcast

Photos of an early printing of On Witchcraft are available at bonkersbook.com