Introduction

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 Implict 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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