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TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface 6 List of Illustrations 13 Permissions 14 Introduction 11 Chapter I. Witchcraft and Magic in the Ancient World 16 1. The Witch of Endor 2. A Sorcery Trial in the Second Century C.E. 3. Curse Tablets Against Roman Charioteers 4. Apuleius: The Power of Witches 5. Horace: Canidia as a Witch Figure 6. Love Magic in Antiquity 7. St. Augustine: Demonic Power in Early Christianity Chapter II. Medieval Foundations of Witch-Hunting 56 8. Canon Law and Witchcraft 9. St.Thomas Aquinas: Scholasticism and Magic 10.The Trial of Dame Alice Kyteler, 1324 11. Nicolas Eymeric: Magic and Heresy, 1376 12. The University of Paris: A Condemnation of Magic, 1398 13. Johannes Nider: An Early Description of the Sabbath, 1435 14. Heinrich Kramer: Malleus Maleficarum, 1486 Chapter III. Witch-Beliefs in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 117 15. Lambert Daneau: Protestantism and Witchcraft, 1575 16. Henri Boguet:The Threat Posed by Witches, 1598 17. Nicolas Remy: The Devil's Mark and Flight to the Sabbath, 1595 18. Martin Del Río: The Maleficia of Witches, 1602 19. William Perkins: Good and Bad Witches, 1608 20. Francesco Maria Guazzo:The Pact with the Devil,1608 21. Pierre de Lancre: Dancing and Sex at the Sabbath, 1612 22. Cotton Mather: The Apocalypse and Witchcraft, 1693 23. James Hutchinson: Child Witches and the Covenant, 1697 Chapter IV. The Trial and Punishment of Witches 198 24. Innocent VIII: Papal Inquisitors and Witchcraft, 1484 25. Heinrich Kramer: The Torture of Accused Witches, 1486 26. Jean Bodin: Witchcraft as an Excepted Crime, 1580 27. Henri Boguet: The Conduct of a Witchcraft Judge, 1602 28. King James VI: The Swimming and Pricking of Witches, 1597 29. Friedrich Spee: A Condemnation of Torture, 1631 30. Robert Filmer: The Discovery of Witches, 1652 31. Sir George Mackenzie: Judicial Caution in the Trial of Witches. 1678 32. Louis XIV: The Decriminalization of Witchcraft in France, 1682 33. Christian Thomasius: The Prohibition of Torture, 1705 34. Repeal of the English and Scottish Witchcraft Statutes, 1736 Chapter V. Witchcraft Trials in Europe and North America 292 35. The Confession of Niclas Fiedler at Trier, 1591 36. The Trial of Françatte Camont in Lorraine, 1598 37. The Confessions of Witches in Guernsey, 1617 38. The Trial and Confession of Elizabeth Sawyer, 1621 39. The Confessions of Johannes Junius at Bamberg, 1628 40. The Witch-Hunt at Eichstätt, 1637 41. The Trial of Witches at Edinburgh, 1643 42. The Trial of a Russian Witch at Lukh, 1657 43. The Salem Witchcraft Trials, 1692 Chapter VI. Demonic Possession and Witchcraft 387 44. Johann Weyer: The Possession of the Nuns at Wertet, 1550 45. Henri Boguet: The Possession of Loyse Maillat, 1598 46. The Possession of Marthe Brossier,1599 47. Edward Jorden: Demonic Possession and Disease, 1603 48. The Possessions at Loudun, 1634 49. Cotton Mather: The Possession of the Goodwin Children, 1689 50. The Possession of Christian Shaw, 1697 Chapter VII. The Sceptical Tradition 456 51. Johannes Weyer: Witches as Melancholics, 1563 52. Reginald Scot: The Unreality of Witchcraft, 1584 53. Antonio de Salazar Frias: The Unreliability of Confessions, 1612 54. Thomas Hobbes: The Nature of Demons, 1651 55. Baruch Spinoza: The Non-Existence of the Devil, 1661, 1675 56. John Webster: Witchcraft and the Occult, 1677 57. Balthasar Bekker:The Disenchantment of the World, 1695 Chapter VIII. Dramatic Representations of Witchcraft 525 58. Seneca: The Witch in Classical Drama 59. Fernando de Rojas: The Witch Figure in Renaissance Drama, 1499 60. Thomas Middleton: The Witch in English Drama, 1613 61. Hans Wiers-Jenssen: A Norwegian Witchcraft Drama, 1917
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Witchcraft History Sources, Magic History Sources