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    Disenchantment

    Sep 10, 2020 2 minutes

    The Decline of Magic

    Britain in the Enlightenment

    Michael Hunter

    Yale University Press 2020

    Hb, 288pp, £25, ISBN 9780300243581

    In the 17th century, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace, but in the subsequent century such certainties were swept away. This

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