The Wax Child Simon Worthington Ronald Hutton traces witchcraft from

Ronald Hutton traces witchcraft from the ancient world to the early-modern stake

Nach ihrem Studium an der Universität von Edinburgh lebt und arbeitet sie nun in Großbritannien

she is their conscience

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of NATIVE NATIONS

personal narratives

The Wax Child Simon Worthington Ronald Hutton traces witchcraft fromIt was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, when she melted down beeswax and set it in the image of a small human. For days, she carried it tucked beneath her arm, shaping it with the warmth of her flesh, giving it life. She fashioned for it eyes and ears that cannot open, and yet it watches and listens. It looks on as Christenze is haunted by rumour, it hears what the people whisper. It sees how, in the