The witchcraft sourcebook

Witchcraft and magic in the ancient world

The medieval foundations of witch-hunting

Witch beliefs in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

The trial and punishment of witches

Witchcraft trials in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Witchcraft trials in England, Scotland, and New England

Demonic possession and witchcraft

The skeptical tradition.

pt. I. Witchcraft and magic in the ancient world. 1. The Witch of Endor

2. A sorcery trial in the second century CE

3. Curse tablets against Roman charioteers

4. Apuleius: the power of witches

5. Horace: Canidia as a witch figure

6. Love magic in antiquity

7. St. Augustine: demonic power in early Christianity

pt. II. The medieval foundations of witch-hunting. 8. Canon law and witchcraft

9. St. Thomas Aquinas: scholasticism and magic

10. The trial of Dame Alice Kyteler, 1324

11. Nicolas Eymeric: magic and heresy, 1376

12. The University of Paris: a condemnation of magic, 1398

13. Johannes Nider: an early description of the witches' sabbath, 1435

4. Heinrich Kramer: malleus maleficarum, 1486

pt. III. Witch beliefs in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 15. Lambert Daneau: Protestantism and witchcraft, 1575

16. Henri Boguet: the threat of witchcraft, 1602

17. Nicolas Remy: the devil's mark and flight to the sabbath, 1595

18. Martín Del Rio: the maleficia of witches, 1600

19. William Perkins: good and bad witches, 1608

20. Francesco Maria Guazzo: the pact with the devil, 1608

21. Pierre de Lancre: dancing and sex at the sabbath, 1612

22. Cotton Mather: the apocalypse and witchcraft, 1692

23. James Hutchinson: children, the covenant, and witchcraft, 1697

pt. IV. The trial and punishment of witches. 24. Innocent VIII: papal inquisitors and witchcraft, 1484

25. Heinrich Kramer: the torture of accused witches, 1486

26. Jean Bodin: witchcraft as an excepted crime, 1580

27. Henri Boguet: the conduct of a witchcraft judge, 1602

28. King James VI: the swimming and pricking of witches, 1597

29. Friedrich Spee: a condemnation of torture, 1631

30. Sir Robert Filmer: the discovery of witches, 1652

31. Sir George Mackenzie: judicial caution in the trial of witches, 1678

32. King Louis XIV of France: the decriminalization of French witchcraft, 1682

33. Christian Thomasius: the prohibition of torture, 1705

34. The repeal of the English and Scottish witchcraft statutes, 1736.

pt. V. Witchcraft trials in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 35. The confession of Niclas Fiedler at Trier, 1591

36. The trial of Françatte Camont in Lorraine, 1598

37. The confessions of witches in Guernsey, 1617

38. The trial and confession of Elizabeth Sawyer, 1621

39. The confessions of Johannes Junius at Bamberg, 1628

40. The witch-hunt at Eichstätt, 1637

41. The trial of Janet Barker and Margaret Lauder at Edinburgh, 1643

42. A Russian witch-trial at Lukh, 1657

43. The Salem witchcraft trials, 1692

pt. VI. Demonic possession and witchcraft. 44. Johann Weyer: the possession of the nuns at Wertet, 1550

45. Henri Boguet: the possession of Loyse Maillat, 1598

46. The possession of Marthe Brossier, 1599

47. Edward Jorden: demonic possession and disease, 1603

48. The possessions at Loudun, 1634

49. Cotton Mather: the possession of the Goodwin children, 1688

50. The possession of Christian Shaw, 1697

pt. VII. The sceptical tradition. 51. Johannes Weyer: witches as melancholics, 1563

52. Reginald Scot: the unreality of witchcraft, 1584

53. Alonso de Salazar Frias: the unreliability of confessions, 1612

54. Thomas Hobbes: the nature of demons, 1651

55. Baruch Spinoza: the non-existence of the Devil, 1661, 1675

56. John Webster: witchcraft and the occult, 1677

57. Balthasar Bekker: the disenchantment of the world, 1695

pt. VIII. Dramatic representations of witchcraft. 58. Seneca: the witch in classical drama

59. Fernando de Rojas: the witch figure in Renaissance drama, 1499

60. Thomas Middleton: the witch in English drama, 1613

61. Hans Wiers-Jenssen: a Norwegian witchcraft drama, 1917.