Introduction

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Witchcraft Repealed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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