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A review by drskaninchen
Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction by Malcolm Gaskill
2.0
'Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction' isn't a good title for this book. A better title would be 'A history of Witchcraft in Europe and the United States: A Very Short Introduction'. After reading the wonderful 'The wizard of the Crow' by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o I hoped to learn more about the role and history of witchcraft in African societies as well as witchcraft in the rest of the world. I didn't get that with this book.
What I didn't get either was an author who tried to be as subjective as possible. Malcolm Gaskill clearly doesn't believe in witches and disagrees with a number of historical theories. People who believe in witches are put away as reflecting their negative emotions, As a fellow non-believer in witches I find this really disrespectful.
What I didn't get either was an author who tried to be as subjective as possible. Malcolm Gaskill clearly doesn't believe in witches and disagrees with a number of historical theories. People who believe in witches are put away as reflecting their negative emotions, As a fellow non-believer in witches I find this really disrespectful.