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the trials of Bridget Cleary

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An edition of The cooper's wife is missing (2000)

The cooper's wife is missing

the trials of Bridget Cleary

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In 1895 twenty-six-year-old Bridget Cleary disappeared from her cottage in rural County Tipperary and remained missing for several days. At last her body was discovered, bent, broken, and badly burned in a shallow grave. Within a few days, her unimaginable story came to light: for almost a week before her death she had been confined, starved, threatened, physically and verbally abused, exorcised, and finally burned to death by her husband, father, aunt, cousins, and neighbors, who had collectively confused a simple flu with possession by the fairies. In The Cooper's Wife Is Missing, Joan Hoff and Marian Yeates try to make sense of this outlandish, unfathomable, medieval "trial" and murder. Drawing on firsthand accounts, contemporary newspaper reports, police records, trial testimony, and a rich wealth of folklore, they weave a mesmerizing fireside tale of magic, madness, and mystery. This is narrative history at its evocative best.

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Basic Books
Language
English
Pages
458

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Subjects
Murder, Case studies, Changelings, Social conditions
People
Bridget Cleary (ca. 1869-1895)
Places
Tipperary (County), Ireland, Tipperary (Ireland : County)
Times
19th century

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The cooper's wife is missing: the trials of Bridget Cleary
2000, Basic Books
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 445-450) and index.

Genre
Case studies.
Other Titles
Trials of Bridget Cleary

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
364.15/23/094192
Library of Congress
HV6535.I742 T565 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
v, 458 p., [8] p. of plates :
Number of pages
458

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3658606M
Internet Archive
cooperswifeismis00hoff
ISBN 10
0465030874, 0465030882
LCCN
2002514803
OCLC/WorldCat
44948357
Library Thing
144194
Goodreads
1659273
49989

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