A review by fictionesque
A Deed Without a Name: Unearthing the Legacy of Traditional Witchcraft by Lee Morgan

1.0

Extremely wanting of citations. You cannot write a supposedly historical-based nonfiction on witchcraft and then not have citations for every claim you make. The author's attempts to merge the historical perspective the book's marketing and paratexts imply with personal anecdotes from his friends whom he can 'personally vouch for' was an extremely clumsy and bad-taste move. It was so odd getting pages and pages of personal modern anecdotes (with zero interpretation) in a book that is supposed to unearth the history of witchcraft. What this book actually did is take modern witchcraft and try to cherry pick evidence from historical sources to say 'hey! See? This happened then too.