![]() One of the most original aspects of this approach is her attention to the psychological state of both the victims and their torturers. Her approach contains a strong psychoanalytical component, with a focus on mentalities and emotions. Much like Stuart Clark in Thinking with Demons (1999), Roper aims to render comprehensible to modern readers a mindset in which magic and witchcraft were an essential part of the overall conception of the universe. ![]() In its finest moments, Lyndal Roper's Witch Craze is a disturbing, brilliant evocation of early modern mindsets in the time of the witch hunts. The Psychology of a Panic: Witches and Magistrates in Baroque Germany Welsh (Department of History, Duke University ) Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany. ![]()
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