Friday 31 October 2008
3p.m. - 6p.m.

Wales had a rich gallery of magical specialists (prophets, cunning-men, charmers, etc.), including many who were suspected of harmful witchcraft.
Richard Suggett examines all types of magical specialists, including those regarded as beneficial as well as harmful. Popular belief in witchcraft in Wales did not decline with the abolition of the Witchcraft Acts in 1736.
Indeed belief in witchcraft became darker in form and was transformed into a novel form of cursing - the use of cursing wells available to everyone.

Published by The History Press
ISBN: 978-0-7524-2826-0

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