Introduction

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 Germany

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

Acknowledgments