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    Dec 05, 2019 2 minutes

    WHAT MAKES A WITCH?

    “Searching for the Witches’ Tower” (November/December 2019) rightly identifies the role of King James I in promoting the eradication of witchcraft in seventeenth-century England, but does not mention the impact of the King James Version of the Hebrew Bible. The Bible’s publication at about the same time as the 1612 Lancashire witchcraft trials replaced

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