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Owen Davies is Reader in Social History at the University of Hertfordshire and the author of Murder, Magic, Madness: The Victorian Trials of Dove and the Wizard (2005)."His book is well researched, making excellent use of court reports and press items from the eighteenth century to the twentieth. A very valuable contribution to historical folklore studies."
- Citation as runner up for the Katherine Briggs Folklore award 2003,
"a detailed and valuable survey of a poorly understood group of people"
- Daniel Cohen,
"absorbing, entertaining and informative"
- Northern Earth,
"the first comprehensive history of English cunning craft"
- The Cauldron,