{"id":15065,"date":"2021-01-04T16:30:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=15065"},"modified":"2021-01-04T16:30:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:30:18","slug":"what-is-the-weirdest-book-you-have-in-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2021\/01\/04\/what-is-the-weirdest-book-you-have-in-the-library\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the weirdest book you have in the library?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How about Scot&#8217;s &#8220;Discoverie of Witchcraft,&#8221; published in 1584? (O&#8217;Neill Library BF1565 .S42 1972) The witch-craze that swept the New England colonies happened about 100 years *after* this book debunking witchcraft, which is weird. Perhaps the Malleus Maleficarum (Theology &amp; Ministry Library, BF1569.A2 I5 1971), the <em>sine qua non<\/em> of demonology first published in 1486, was just more popular. As an upstanding wall, I think it&#8217;s weird that humans enjoy the thrill of fear more than the satisfactions of rationality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How about Scot&#8217;s &#8220;Discoverie of Witchcraft,&#8221; published in 1584? (O&#8217;Neill Library BF1565 .S42 1972) The witch-craze that swept the New England colonies happened about 100 years *after* this book debunking witchcraft, which is weird. Perhaps the Malleus Maleficarum (Theology &amp; Ministry Library, BF1569.A2 I5 1971), the sine qua non of demonology first published in 1486, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2021\/01\/04\/what-is-the-weirdest-book-you-have-in-the-library\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is the weirdest book you have in the library?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15066,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15065\/revisions\/15066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}