To celebrate the Halloween season, we’ve scared up a collection of frightful legal tomes to haunt your mobile devices. Don’t be afraid to check out this selection of Halloween-themed eBooks!
Halloween eBooks
This book considers the legal category ”monster” from theoretical and historical perspectives and deploys this category in order to understand contemporary anxieties surrounding transsexuals, conjoined…Access eBook.
Part of the enduring fascination of the Salem witch trials is the fact that, to date, no one theory has been able to fully explain the events that ravaged Salem in 1692. Countless causes, from ergot-infected…Access eBook.
Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth century came not from intentional poisoning, but from accident….Access eBook.
Dr. Farrell’s sourced work brings up the possibility that earth may have been occupied by a race of tyrannical giants…Access eBook.
Exploring the crime of witchcraft in early modern England, this book focuses on legal questions of proof. As a capital crime – yet one that was uniquely difficult to prove – witchcraft investigations and….Access eBook.
A comparative analysis of early witch trials in Lucerne, Nuremberg and Basel, within the context of criminal justice and social control. The case of Lucerne presents a fascinating interplay between witch…Access eBook.
Boasting a rich, complex history rooted in Celtic and Christian ritual, Halloween has evolved from ethnic celebration to a blend of street festival, fright night, and vast commercial enterprise. In this colorful history, Nicholas Rogers takes a lively, entertaining look…Access eBook..
Tells the story of Kate Branch, a seventeen-year-old afflicted by strange visions and given to blood-chilling wails of pain and fright. Branch accused several women of bewitching her, two of whom were…Access eBook.