To write the podcast I make use of the extensive library provided by the university and my own growing collection, and when I cover a new period or region I make sure to immerse myself in the historiography of the topic. While I mainly use secondary literature, since these academics have often done the hard part of researching for me, for key texts or for certain subjects I will refer to the primary documents. In the show notes of each episode, you should find a list of some of the main publications I’ve used in writing it, and I often refer to them in the episode itself.
Primary Documents and Contemporary Publications
- A Description of the Life and Death of John Lambe, otherwise called Doctor Lambe (1628)
- Constitutio Criminalis Carolina (1530)
- Against Conjurations, and witchcrafts, and sorcery, and enchantments (1542)
- Statute against Conjurations, Enchantments, and witchcrafts (1563)
- Witchcraft Act (1563)
- An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft and dealing with evil and wicked spirits (1604)
- Lex Cornelia de sicariis et veneficiis (81BCE)
- Livy, The History of Rome
- The Twelve Tables
- The Book of Arda Viraf
- The Sixteen Lands of Ahura Mazda and the Many Plagues of Ahriman
- Newes From Scotland (1591)
- Del Rio, M., Disquisitiones Magicae (1599)
- Gifford, G., A Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts (1593)
- Institoris, H., and Sprenger, J., Malleus Maleficarum (1487)
- Potts, T., The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster (1613)
- Remy, N., Demonolatry (1595)
- Spee, F., Cautio Criminalis (1531)
- Scot, R., The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584)
- Stuart, J., Daemonologie (1597)
- Weyer, J., De Praestigiis Daemonum (1563)
Secondary Literature by Alphabetical Surname (Compiled by Refworks; Formatting errors abound!)
- Ankarloo, Bengt, Stuart Clark, and E. William Monter. , Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Period of the Witch Trials, (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002).
- Ankarloo, Bengt, and Stuart Clark. , Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Twentieth Century, (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999).
- Bailey, Michael D. ‘The European Witch-Hunt’, Social History, vol. 42/no. 2, (2017), pp. 281-282.
- Barry, Jonathan, Marianne Hester, and Gareth Roberts. , ‘Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe: Studies in Culture and Belief’, Anonymous Translator(, Past and present publications, Cambridge ; New York, Cambridge University Press, 1996).
- Behringer, Wolfgang. , ‘Weather, Hunger and Fear: Origins of the European Witch-Hunts in Climate, Society and Mentality’, in Anonymous , The Witchcraft Reader(, 2002).
- Betz, Hans Dieter,. , ‘The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation : Including the Demotic Spells. [Volume One, [Volume One,’, Anonymous Translator(, Chicago; London, University of Chicago Press, 1996).
- Boyer, Paul S., Stephen Nissenbaum, and United States. Work Progress Administration. , ‘The Salem Witchcraft Papers: Verbatim Transcripts of the Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692’, Anonymous Translator(, New York, Da Capo Press, 1977).
- Broedel, Hans Peter, and ProQuest. ‘The Malleus Maleficarum and the Construction of Witchcraft’, (2003), .
- Burgtorf,Jochen, Crawford,Paul, and Nicholson,Helen J. ‘The Debate on the Trial of the Templars (1307-1314)’, 2016).
- Carr, Victoria. , ‘The Countess of Angus’s Escape from the North Berwick Witch-Hunt’, in Anonymous , Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters(, 2013).
- Clark, Stuart. , ‘Inversion, Misrule and the Meaning of Witchcraft’, in Anonymous , The Witchcraft Reader(, 2002).
- —. , ‘Protestant Witchcraft, Catholic Witchcraft’, in Anonymous , The Witchcraft Reader(, 2002).
- Cohn, Norman. , ‘The Demonization of Mediaeval Heretics’, in Anonymous , the Witchcraft Reader(, 2002).
- Cohn, Norman. , ‘Europe’s Inner Demons: An Enquiry Inspired by the Great Witch-Hunt’, Anonymous Translator(, Columbus centre series, studies in the dynamics of persecution and extermination, London, Chatto : Heinemann for Sussex University Press, 1975).
- Cryer, Frederick H.,Thomsen, Marie-Louise.,. , ‘Witchcraft and Magic in Europe Vol. 1, Vol. 1,’, Anonymous Translator(, London, Athlone Press, 2001).
- Davies, Owen. ‘Urbanization and the Decline of Witchcraft: An Examination of London’, Journal of Social History, vol. 30/no. 3, (1997), pp. 597-617.
- —. ‘Urbanization and the Decline of Witchcraft: An Examination of London’, Journal of Social History, vol. 30/no. 3, (1997), pp. 597-617.
- Davies, Owen, and Willem de Bl©♭court. , ‘Beyond the Witch Trials: Witchcraft and Magic in Enlightenment Europe’, Anonymous Translator(, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2004).
- Dawson, Jane E. A. , ‘The Politics of Religion in the Age of Mary, Queen of Scots: The Earl of Argyll and the Struggle for Britain and Ireland’, Anonymous Translator(, Cambridge studies in early modern british history, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002).
- de Blecourt, Willem, and Owen Davies. , ‘Witchcraft Continued: Popular Magic in Modern Europe’, Anonymous Translator(, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2004).
- Deacon, Richard. , ‘Matthew Hopkins: Witch Finder General’, Anonymous Translator(, London, F. Muller, 1976).
- Del Cervo, Diane M., and Cornell University. ‘Witchcraft in Europe and America’, (1983), .
- Dickie,Matthew W.,. ‘Magic and Magicians in the Greco-Roman World.’, 2012).
- Dillinger, Johannes,. , ‘”Evil People” : A Comparative Study of Witch Hunts in Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier’, Anonymous Translator(, Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 2009).
- Edelstein, Michael. ‘Review of British Imperialism, 1688-2000, by Cain,P.J.; Hopkins,A.G. ‘, The Journal of Economic History, vol. 63/no. 2, (2003), pp. 586-589.
- Elmer, Peter. , ‘Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England’, Anonymous Translator(First edn, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016).
- Elmer, Peter, and Oxford University Press. , ‘Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England’, Anonymous Translator(First edn, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016).
- Erik Midelfort, H. C. , ‘The Devil and the German People’, in Anonymous , The Witchcraft Reader(, 2002).
- —. , ‘Heartland of the Witchcraze’, in Anonymous , The Witchcraft Reader(, 2002).
- Faraone, Christopher A.,. , ‘Ancient Greek Love Magic’, Anonymous Translator(, Harvard University Press, 1999).
- Farber, W. , ‘Witchcraft, Magic, and Divination in Ancient Mesopotamia’, in Anonymous , Civilizations of the Ancient Near East(, New York, 1995), Volume III.
- Gaskill, Malcolm. ‘Witchfinders: A Seventeenth Century English Tragedy’, (2005), .
- —. , ‘Witchcraft Trials in England’, in Anonymous , The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America(, 2014).
- Gaskill, Malcolm. ‘Witchcraft and Evidence in Early Modern England’, Past & Present, no. 198, (2008), pp. 33-70.
- —. ‘Witchcraft and Evidence in Early Modern England’, Past & Present, no. 198, (2008), pp. 33-70.
- Gibson, Marion,,. , ‘Witchcraft and Society in England and America, 1550-1750’, Anonymous Translator(, London, Continuum, 2006).
- —. , ‘Possession, Puritanism and Print : Darrell, Harsnett, Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Exorcism Controversy’, Anonymous Translator(, New York, Routledge, 2015).
- Ginzburg, Carlo. , ‘Deciphering the Witches’ Sabbat’, in Anonymous , the Witchcraft Reader(, 2002).
- Ginzburg, Carlo, Raymond Rosenthal, and Gregory Elliott. , ‘Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches’ Sabbath’, Anonymous Translator(, London, Hutchinson Radius, 1990).
- Golden, Richard M. ‘American Perspectives on the European Witch Hunts’, The History Teacher, vol. 30/no. 4, (1997), pp. 409-426.
- Goodare, Julian,. The European Witch-Hunt, (2016).
- —. ‘Women and the Witch-Hunt in Scotland’, Social History, vol. 23/no. 3, (1998), pp. 288-308.
- —. Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters, (2013), .
- —. State and Society in Early Modern Scotland’, (1999).
- —. The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context, (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2002).
- Goodare, Julian, Lynch, Michael,. The Reign of James VI, (Edinburgh, John Donald, 2008).
- Goodare, Julian, Lauren Martin, Joyce Miller., Witchcraft and Belief in Early Modern Scotland, (Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
- Graf, F. , ‘Magic in the Ancient World’, Anonymous Translator(, 1997).
- Hansen, Chadwick. , ‘Andover Witchcraft and the Causes of the Salem Witchcraft Trials’, in Anonymous , Witchcraft in Colonial America(, New York, Garland Pub., 1992; 1869), Volume 8, 403.
- Hansen, Chadwick. , ‘Witchcraft at Salem’, Anonymous Translator(, New York, G. Braziller, 1969).
- Hill, Frances. , ‘The Salem Witch Trials Reader’, Anonymous Translator(, Cambridge, Mass., Da Capo Press, 2000).
- Holmes, Ronald. , ‘Witchcraft in British History’, Anonymous Translator(, London, Muller, 1974).
- Jackson, Louise. ‘Witches, Wives and Mothers: Witchcraft Persecution and Women’s Confessions in Seventeenth-Century England’, Women’s History Review, vol. 4/no. 1, (1995), pp. 63-84.
- Jolly, Karen Louise., Raudvere, Catharina.,Peters, Edward.,. , ‘Witchcraft and Magic in Europe : The Middle Ages’, Anonymous Translator(, London, Athlone Press, 2002).
- Kieckhefer, Richard. , ‘European Witch Trials: Their Foundations in Popular and Learned Culture, 1300-1500’, Anonymous Translator(, London, Routledge & K. Paul, 1976).
- Kors, Alan Charles, and Edward Peters. , ‘Witchcraft in Europe, 1100-1700: A Documentary History’, Anonymous Translator(, London, Dent, 1973; 1972).
- Larner, Christina. , ‘The Crime of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe’, in Anonymous , The Witchcraft Reader(, London, Routledge, 2002), 448.
- —. , ‘Was Witch-Hunting Woman-Hunting?’, in Anonymous , The Witchcraft Reader(, London, Routledge, 2002), 448.
- Larner, Christina. , ‘Enemies of God: The Witch-Hunt in Scotland’, Anonymous Translator(, London, Chatto and Windus, 1981).
- Larner, Christina, and Alan Macfarlane. , ‘Witchcraft and Religion: The Politics of Popular Belief’, Anonymous Translator(, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1985; 1984).
- LeBeau, Bryan F. , ‘The Story of the Salem Witch Trials: “we Walked in Clouds and could Not See our Way”‘, Anonymous Translator(, Upper Saddle River, N.J., Prentice Hall, 1998).
- LeBeau, Bryan F. , ‘The Story of the Salem Witch Trials: “we Walked in Clouds and could Not See our Way”‘, Anonymous Translator(, Upper Saddle River, N.J., Prentice Hall, 1998).
- Lee-Stecum, Parshia. ‘Dangerous Reputations: Charioteers and Magic in Fourth-Century Rome’, Greece & Rome, vol. 53/no. 2, (2006), pp. 224-234.
- Levack, Brian. , ‘State-Building and Witch Hunting in Early Modern Europe’, in Anonymous , the Witchcraft Reader(Oldridge, Darren edn, 2002).
- Levack, Brian P. , ‘Witch-Hunting in Continental Europe: Local and Regional Studies’, Anonymous Translator, Volume 5(, Articles on witchcraft, magic and demonology, New York, London, Garland, 1992).
- —. , ‘Witchcraft in England’, Anonymous Translator, Volume 6(, Articles on witchcraft, magic, and demonology, New York, Garland Pub., 1992; 1866).
- —. , ‘Witchcraft in Colonial America’, Anonymous Translator, Volume 8(, Articles on witchcraft, magic, and demonology, New York, Garland Pub., 1992; 1869).
- —. , ‘Witchcraft in Scotland’, Anonymous Translator, Volume 7(, Articles on witchcraft, magic, and demonology, New York, Garland Pub., 1992; 1891).
- —. , ‘The Literature of Witchcraft’, Anonymous Translator, Volume 4(, Articles on witchcraft, magic, and demonology, New York, Garland Pub., 1992; 1907).
- —. , ‘Witchcraft and Demonology in Art and Literature’, Anonymous Translator, Volume 12(, Articles on witchcraft, magic, and demonology, New York, Garland Pub., 1992; 1917).
- —. , ‘Anthropological Studies of Witchcraft, Magic, and Religion’, Anonymous Translator, Volume 1(, Articles on witchcraft, magic, and demonology, New York, Garland Pub., 1992; 1929).
- —. , ‘Witchcraft in the Ancient World and the Middle Ages’, Anonymous Translator, Volume 2(, Articles on witchcraft, magic, and demonology, New York, Garland Pub., 1992; 1930).
- —. , ‘Renaissance Magic’, Anonymous Translator, Volume 11(, Articles on witchcraft, magic, and demonology, New York, Garland Pub., 1992; 1951).
- —. , ‘Witchcraft, Women, and Society’, Anonymous Translator, Volume 10(, Articles on witchcraft, magic, and demonology, New York, Garland Pub., 1992; 1951).
- —. , ‘Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe: General Studies’, Anonymous Translator, Volume 3(, Articles on witchcraft, magic, and demonology, New York, Garland Pub., 1992; 1960).
- —. , ‘Possession and Exorcism’, Anonymous Translator, Volume 9(, Articles on witchcraft, magic, and demonology, New York, Garland Pub., 1992; 1962).
- —. , ‘The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe’, Anonymous Translator(, London ; New York, Longman, 1995).
- Levack,Brian P.,,. , ‘The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America’, Anonymous Translator(, 2014).
- Levin,C. ‘Witchcraft in Shakespeare’s England’, <https://www.bl.uk/shakespeare/articles/witchcraft-in-shakespeares-england>.
- Luck, G. , ‘Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds’, Anonymous Translator(, 2006).
- Macfarlane, Alan. , ‘Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England: A Regional and Comparative Study’, Anonymous Translator(, London, Routledge & K. Paul, 1970).
- Mackay, Christopher S.,,Institoris, Heinrich,,. , ‘The Hammer of Witches : A Complete Translation of the Malleus Maleficarum’, Anonymous Translator(, Cambridge, UK; New York, Cambridge University Press, 2017).
- MacRobert, A. E. , ‘Mary Queen of Scots and the Casket Letters’, Anonymous Translator(, London, I.B. Tauris, 2002).
- Maxwell-Stuart, P. G. , ‘Witchcraft in Europe and the New World, 1400-1800’, Anonymous Translator(, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, Palgrave, 2001).
- Midelfort, H. C. Erik,. , ‘Witch Hunting in Southwestern Germany, 1562-1684 : The Social and Intellectual Foundations’, Anonymous Translator(, Standford Ca., Standford University Press, 1972).
- Monter, E. William. , ‘The Sociology of Jura Witchcraft’, in Anonymous , The Witchcraft Reader(, 2002).
- Monter, E. William,. , ‘Witchcraft in France and Switzerland : The Borderlands during the Reformation’, Anonymous Translator(, Ithaca, 1976).
- Naphy, William G. , ‘Plagues, Poisons, and Potions: Plague-Spreading Conspiracies in the Western Alps, c. 1530-1640’, Anonymous Translator(, Social and cultural values in early modern europe, Manchester ; New York; New York, Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2002).
- Naphy, William G., and Penny Roberts. , ‘Fear in Early Modern Society’, Anonymous Translator(, Studies in early modern european history, New York, Manchester University Press, 1997).
- Normand, Lawrence, and Gareth Roberts. , ‘Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland; James VI’s Demonology and the North Berwick Witches’, Anonymous Translator(1st edn, Liverpool University Press, 2000).
- Oldridge, Darren. , ‘The Witchcraft Reader’, Anonymous Translator(, London, Routledge, 2002).
- —. ‘Fairies and the Devil in Early Modern England’, The Seventeenth Century, vol. 31/no. 1, (2016), pp. 1-15.
- Parker, Adam. , ‘Protecting the Troops? Phallic Carvings in the North of Roman Britain’, in Anonymous , Ad Vallum: Papers on the Roman Army and Frontiers in Celebration of Dr. Brian Dobson(, 2017).
- Pearson, Jacqueline. ‘Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England’, The Seventeenth Century, vol. 31/no. 3, (2016), pp. 375-379.
- —. ‘Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England’, The Seventeenth Century, vol. 31/no. 3, (2016), pp. 375-379.
- Picard,L. ‘Witchcraft, Magic and Religion’, <https://www.bl.uk/shakespeare/articles/witchcraft-magic-and-religion>.
- Poole, Robert. , ‘The Lancashire Witches: Histories and Stories’, Anonymous Translator(, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2002).
- Purkiss,Diane. ‘Witches in Macbeth’, <https://www.bl.uk/shakespeare/articles/witches-in-macbeth>.
- Purkiss, Diane. , ‘The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations’, Anonymous Translator(, London ; New York, Routledge, 1996).
- —. , ‘The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations’, Anonymous Translator(, London ; New York, Routledge, 1996).
- Rasmussen,E., and DeJong,I. ‘An Introduction to Doctor Faustus: Morality and Sin’, <https://www.bl.uk/shakespeare/articles/an-introduction-to-doctor-faustus-morality-and-sin>.
- Rogers, Nicholas, and ProQuest. ‘Halloween’, (2002), .
- Rowlands, Alison. , ‘Witchcraft and Gender in Early Modern Europe’, in Anonymous , The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America(, 2014).
- Rowlands, Alison. , ‘Witchcraft Narratives in Germany: Rothenburg, 1561-1652’, Anonymous Translator(, Studies in early modern european history, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2003).
- —. ‘Witchcraft and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe’, (2009), .
- Santino, Jack. , ‘Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life’, Anonymous Translator(, Knoxville, Tenn., University of Tennessee Press, 1994).
- Schwemer, Daniel. ‘Witchcraft and War: The Ritual Fragment Ki 1904-10-9, 18 (BM 98989)’, Iraq, vol. 69/(2007), pp. 29-42.
- Sharpe, Jim. , ‘Women, Witchcraft, and the Legal Process’, in Anonymous , the Witchcraft Reader(, 2002).
- Sharpe, J. A. , ‘Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in England, 1550-1750’, Anonymous Translator(, London, Hamish Hamilton, 1996).
- Stanhill, Gerald. ‘Shakespeare’s Tempest, Witchcraft and the Little Ice Age’, Weather, vol. 71/(2016), pp. 100.
- Stewart, Alan. , ‘The Cradle King: A Life of James VI and I’, Anonymous Translator(, London, Chatto & Windus, 2003).
- Thomas, Keith. , ‘The Relevance of Social Anthropology to the Historical Study of English Witchcraft’, in Anonymous , Witchcraft Confessions and Accusations(, 2013).
- Thomas, Keith Vivian. , ‘Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England’, Anonymous Translator(, A peregrine book, Harmondsworth ; New York, Penguin Boooks, 1984).
- Thompson, Andrew. ‘Informal Empire? an Exploration in the History of Anglo-Argentine Relations, 1810–1914’, Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 24/no. 2, (1992), pp. 419-436.
- Waite, Gary K.,. , ‘Eradicating the Devil’s Minions : Anabaptists and Witches in Reformation Europe, 1525-1600’, Anonymous Translator(, Toronto [etc., University of Toronto Press, 2012).
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