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Witchcraft and Catholic Theology

The Holy and the Unholy: Sainthood, Witchcraft, and Magic in Late Medieval Europe

The Specific Rationality of Medieval Magic

The Devil's Hoodwink: Seeing and Believing in the World of Sixteenth-Century Witchcraft

Bernardino of Siena, Popular Preacher and Witch-Hunter: A 1426 Witch Trial in Rome

Institors of Innsbruck: Heinrich Institoris, the Summis Desiderantes, and the Brixen Witch Trial of 1485

Protestant Demonology: Sin, Superstition, and Society (c.1520-c.1630)

Martin Luther on Witchcraft: a True Reformer?

The Devil as Doctor: Witchcraft, Wodrow, and the Wider World

The Devil's Encounter with America

Witches, Sinners, and the Underside of Covenant Theology

Visions of evil: Popular Culture, Puritanism and the Massachusetts Witchcraft Crisis of 1692

Magic and the Theology of the Body: Exorcism in Sixteenth-Century Augsburg

A Woman and the Devil: Possession and Exorcism in Sixteenth-Century France

The Devils of Queretaro: Scepticism and Credulity in Late Seventeenth-Century Mexico

Balthasar Bekker and the Decline of the Witch-Craze: The Old Demonology and the New Philosophy

`Man is a Devil to Himself': David Joris and the Rise of a Sceptical Tradition towards the Devil in the Early Modern Netherlands

Witchcraft and Tolerance: The Dutch case

``Saints or Sorcerers'': Quakerism, Demonology, and the Decline of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century England

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Satan in Europe: The Geography of the Witch Hunts

Sweden: The Mass Burnings (1668--1676)

``Envious are all the People, Witches Watch at Every Gate'': Finnish Witches and Witch Trials in the Seventeenth Century

The Making of a Witch: The Guilty Triangle--- as Illustrated in the Case against Elline Klokkers of Gjerpen

The Kirkjubol Affair: A Seventeenth-Century Icelandic Witchcraft Case Analyzed

Witchcraft in the Northern Netherlands

The European Witchcraft Debate and the Dutch variant

Witch-Hunting in Hungary: Social or Cultural Tensions?

Witch Beliefs and Witch Hunting in Central and Eastern Europe

``Wise Women'', Sinners, and the Poor: The Social Background in a 16th-18th-Century Calvinist City of Eastern Hungary

Witchcraft in the Central Balkans I: Characteristics of Witches

The Role of the Episcopal Tribunal of Novara in the Suppression of Heresy and Witchcraft, 1563-1615

The Jew as Witch: Displaced Aggression and the Myth of the Santo Nino de La Guardia

The Visions of a Guachichil Witch in 1599: A Window on the Subjugation of Mexico's Hunter-Gatherers

The Origins of the Witch-Craze in the Alps

A Quantitative Evaluation of Demographic, Gender, and Social Transformation Theories of the Rise of European Witch Hunting

Weather, Hunger, and Fear: The Origins of the European Witch Prosecutions in Climate, Society, and Mentality

Witches and Persecuting Societies

State-Building and Witch Hunting in Early Modern Europe

The Devil's Children: Child Witch-Trials in Early Modern German

Evil Imaginings and Fantasies: Child Witches and the End of the Witch Craze

The persecution of Witches as Restoration of Order: the Case of Germany, 1590s-1650s

Godly States: Confessional Conflict and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Germany

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Witchcraft Beliefs and Criminal Procedure in Early Modern England

Possession, Witchcraft, and the Law in Jacobean England

Women, Witchcraft and the Legal process

The Lancashire Witch Trials of 1612 and 1634 and the Economics of Witchcraft

Witchcraft, Politics, and ``Good Neighbourhood'' in Early Seventeenth-Century Rye

Witchcraft and Conflicting Visions of the Ideal Village Community

Witchcraft in Early Modern Kent: Stereotypes and the Background to Accusations

Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Yorkshire: Accusations and Countermeasures

Shakespeare and the English Witch Hunts: Enclosing the Maternal Body

Ghost and Witch in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Desire and Its Deformities: Fantasies of Witchcraft in the English Civil War

Witchcraft and Power in Early Modern England: The Case of Margaret Moore

The Devil in East Anglia: the Matthew Hopkins Trials Reconsidered

Witchcraft Repealed

The Fear of the King is Death: James VI and the Witches of East Lothian

The Bargarran Witchcraft Trial: A Psychiatric Reassessment

Irish Immunity to Witch-Hunting, 1534-1711

Like Images Made Black with the Lightning: Discourse and the Body in Colonial Witchcraft

Tituba's Story

Spectral Evidence, Non-Spectral Acts of Witchcraft and Confessions at Salem in 1692

New England Witch-Hunting and the Politics of Reason in the Early Republic

Eros, the Devil, and the Cunning Woman: Sexuality and the Supernatural in European Antecedents and in the Seventeenth-Century Salem Witchcraft Cases

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On Studying Witchcraft as Women's History: A Historiography of the European Witch Persecutions

The Witch ``She''/The Historian ``He'': Gender and the Historiography of the European Witch-Hunts

Women as Victims? Witches, Judges, and the Community

The ``Gendering'' of Witchcraft in French Demonology: Misogyny or Polarity?

Through the Prism of Witchcraft: Gender and Social Change in Seventeenth-Century Muscovy

The Devil in the Shape of a Man: Witchcraft, Conflict, and Belief in Jacobean England

Women: Witnesses and Witches

Witchcraft and Women in Seventeenth-Century England: Some Northern Evidence

Marriage or a Career? Witchcraft as an Alternative in Seventeenth-Century Venice

Words, Witches, and Women Trouble: Witchcraft, Disorderly Speech, and Gender Boundaries in Puritan New England

Sexual Witchcraft, Colonialism, and Women's Powers: Views from the Mexican Inquisition

Witches and Witchcraft: A Study about Representations of Female Power on Santa Catarina Island

Witches, Wives, and Mothers: Witchcraft Persecutions and Women's Confessions in Seventeenth-Century England

Women's stories of witchcraft in Early Modern England: The House, the Body, the Child

Witchcraft and Fantasy in Early Modern Germany

The Spirit of Fornication: Virtue of the Soul and Virtue of the Body in Friuli, 1600-1800

Syphilis, Misogyny, and Witchcraft in 16th-Century Europe

Stealing Manhood: Capitalism and Magic in Early Modern Germany

Fears of Flying: Representations of Witchcraft and Sexuality in Early Sixteenth-Century Germany

Witches as Devils' Concubines: On the Origin of Fear of Witches and Protection against Witches

Witch or Saint: Absolutes in the French 18th Century Novel

The Embodied Goddess: Feminist Witchcraft and Female Divinity

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Folk Medicine as Part of a Larger Concept Complex

Healing Charms in Use in England and Wales, 1700-1950

From Cunning Man to Natural Healer

Historians as Demonologists: The Myth of the Midwife Witch

Witch Doctors, Soothsayers, and Priests. On Cunning Folk in European Historiography and Tradition

On the Trail of the Witches: Wise Women, Midwives and the European Witch Hunts

The Rational Witchfinder: Conscience, Demonological Naturalism, and Popular Superstitions

Witchcraft and Popular Religion in Early Modern Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Magical healing, Love Magic, and the Inquisition in Late Sixteenth-Century Modena

The Church, the Devil and the Healing Activities of Living Saints in the Kingdom of Naples after the Council of Trent

Witchcraft Beliefs and Social Control in Seventeenth-Century Malta

Magic, Popular Medicine, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Mexico: The Case of Isabel de Montoya

Witchcraft in Portugal during the Eighteenth Century, Analysed through the Accusations of the Tribunal do Santo Oficio de Evora

Shamanistic Elements in Central European Witchcraft

Indian Shamans and English Witches in Seventeenth-Century New England

Shaman, Healer, Witch. Comparing Shamanism with Franconian Folk Magic

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Newspapers and Popular Belief in Witchcraft and Magic in the Modern Period

Hag-Riding in Nineteenth-Century West Country England and Modern Newfoundland: An Examination of An Experience-Centered Witchcraft Tradition

Witchcraft Beliefs in Pre-revolutionary Russian and Ukrainian Villages

``Tacit, Unsuspected, but Still Implicit Faith'': Alternative Belief in Nineteenth-Century Rural England

Methodism, the Clergy, and the Popular Belief in Witchcraft and Magic

Nazi Ideology Redefining Deviants: Witches, Himmler's Witch-Trial Survey, and the Case of the Bishopric of Bamberg

Whose Enlightenment? Medicine, Witchcraft, Melancholia, and Pathology

The Victory of Psychiatry over Demonology: the Origins of the Nineteenth-Century Myth

Witchcraft Prosecutions after the End of the Era of the Witch Trials: A Contribution to Danish Ethnology

The Witch and Crime: the Persecution of Witches in Twentieth-Century Poland

Fairy Faith and Changelings: The Burning of Bridget Cleary in 1895

Justice by Magic: Witchcraft as Social Control among Franconian Peasants

The Old Vinegar Lady, or the Judicial Modernization of the Crime of Witchcraft

The Ross-shire Witchcraft Case of 1822

Red Lilac of the Cayugas: Traditional Indian Laws and Culture Conflict in a Witchcraft Trial in Buffalo, New York, 1930

Urbanization and the Decline of Witchcraft: An Examination of London

If You are a Devil You Are a Witch and if You Are a Witch You are a Devil: The Integration of ``Pagan'' ideas into the Conceptual Universe of Ewe Christians in Southeastern Ghana

Witchcraft in Statecraft: Five Technologies of Power in Colonial and Postcolonial Coastal Kenya

Containing Occult Practices: Witchcraft Trials in Cameroon

The ANC's Dilemma: The Symbolic Politics of Three Witch-Hunts in the South African Lowveld, 1990-1995

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