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I.b.tauris & Co Ltd - Embracing the darkness | john callow

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• As dusk fell on a misty evening in 1521
• Martin Luther hiding from his enemies at Wartburg Castle found himself seemingly tormented by demons hurling walnuts at his bedroom window
• In a fit of rage
• The great reformer threw at the Devil the inkwell from which he was preparing his colossal translation of the Bible
• A belief like Luther's in the supernatural
• And in black magic
• Has been central to European cultural life for 3000 years
• From the Salem witch trials to the macabre novels of Dennis Wheatley
• From the sadistic persecution of eccentric village women to the seductive sorceresses of TV's 'Charmed'
• And from Derek Jarman's punk film 'Jubilee' to Ken Russell's 'The Devils'