Bewitching Of Anne Gunter; Author: Sharpe, J. A.; Paperback

Author: Sharpe, J. A.
Paperback
Routledge
ISBN: 0415926920

In 1604, 20-year-old Anne Gunter was bewitched: she foamed at the mouth, contorted wildly in her bed-chamber, went into trances. Her garters and bodices were perpetually unlacing themselves. Her signature symptom was to vomit pins and she voided some pins downwards as well by her water or otherwise.For readers of Steven Ozment's The Burgermeister's Daughter and Natalie Zemon Davis The Return of Martin Guerre, The Bewitching of Anne Gunter opens a fascinating window onto the past. It's a tale of controlling fathers, willful daughters, nosy neighbors, power relations between peasants and gentry, and village life in early-modern Europe. Above all it's an original and revealing story of one young woman's experience with the greatly misunderstood phenomenon of witchcraft.