Enemy Within

With the vision of a historian and the voice of a novelist prize?winning author John Demos explores the social cultural and psychological roots of the scourge that is witch-hunting both in the remote past and today. The Enemy Within chronicles the most prominent witch-hunts of the Western world?women and men who were targeted by suspicious neighbors and accused of committing horrific crimes by supernatural means?and shows how the fear of witchcraft has fueled recurrent cycles of accusation persecution and purging. A unique and fascinating book it illumines the dark side of communities driven to rid themselves of perceived evil no matter what the human cost.