About the author
Kateryna Dysa is the author of Ukrainian Witchcraft Trials: Volhynia, Podolia, and Ruthenia, 17th-18th Centuries, published by Central European University Press, with editions listed from 2020 and 2023. The book draws on quantitative analysis of surviving trial records to reconstruct both the ideological background of witchcraft prosecution, shaped by clerical and theological writing on the devil and witches, and the practical process by which accusations moved through local tribunals in the named regions of early modern Ukraine. This is a work of documentary history aimed at readers interested in the legal and religious mechanics of witch trials in Eastern Europe, a region less covered in English-language witchcraft scholarship than Western Europe. The book's focus on primary trial records and regional specificity distinguishes it from more general or popular treatments of the European witch trials.
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“Dysa delivers a dense, archival-heavy analysis that demands patience from the reader. While the microhistorical focus on Volhynia offers unique insights into social dynamics and theological underpinnings, this is not a…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on Ukrainian Witchcraft Trials: Volhynia, Podolia, and Ruthenia, 17th-18th Centuries
“Dysa delivers a scholarly, dense examination of witchcraft trials that demands patience from its audience. While the microhistorical approach to a single Volhynian village provides unique insights into local judicial handling of…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on Ukrainian Witchcraft Trials: Volhynia, Podolia, and Ruthenia, 17th-18th Centuries
