The witchcraft reader

General Introduction / Darren Oldridge

Pt. 1. Mediaeval Origins

1. Witch Trials in Mediaeval Europe / Richard Kieckhefer

2. Demonization of Mediaeval Heretics / Norman Cohn

Pt. 2. Witchcraft, Magic and Culture

3. Experience of Bewitchment / Robin Briggs

4. Weather, Hunger and Fear: Origins of the European Witch-Hunts in Climate, Society and Mentality / Wolfgang Behringer

5. Sociology of Jura Witchcraft / E. William Monter

6. Witchcraft Narratives and Folklore Motifs in Southern Italy / David Gentilcore

Pt. 3. Idea of a Witch Cult

7. Heartland of the Witchcraze / H. C. Erik Midelfort

8. Deciphering the Witches' Sabbat / Carlo Ginzburg

9. Alternative World of the Witches' Sabbat / Eva Pocs

10. Satanic Myths and Cultural Realities / Robert Muchembled

11. Inversion, Misrule and the Meaning of Witchcraft / Stuart Clark

Pt. 4. Witchcraft and the Reformation

12. Protestant Witchcraft, Catholic Witchcraft / Stuart Clark

13. Confessional Identity and Magic in the Late Sixteenth Century: Jakob Bithner and Witchcraft in Styria / Edmund Kern

14. Between the Devil and the Inquisitor: Anabaptists, Diabolical Conspiracies and Magical Beliefs / Gary K. Waite

Pt. 5. Witchcraft, the State and Social Control

15. Crime of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe / Christina Larner

16. State-Building and Witch Hunting in Early Modern Europe / Brian Levack

Pt. 6. Witchcraft, Possession and the Devil

17. Devil in Renaissance France / David Nicholls

18. Devil and the German People / H. C. Erik Midelfort

19. Divine Apparition or Demonic Possession? / Moshe Sluhovsky

Pt. 7. Witchcraft and Gender

20. Was Witch-Hunting Woman-Hunting? / Christina Larner

21. Patriarchal Reconstruction and Witch-Hunting / Marianne Hester

22. Women, Witchcraft and the Legal Process / Jim Sharpe

23. Women: Witches and Witnesses / Clive Holmes

Pt. 8. Reading Confessions

24. Oedipus and the Devil / Lyndal Roper

25. Witchcraft and Power in Early Modern England: The Case of Margaret Modre / Malcolm Gaskill

26. Witches, Wives and Mothers: Witchcraft Persecution and Women's Confessions in Seventeenth-Century England / Louise Jackson

Pt. 9. Decline of Witchcraft

27. End of Witch Trials / Brian Levack

28. Decline of Witches and the Rise of Vampires / Gabor Klaniczay

29. Urbanization and the Decline of Witchcraft: An Examination of London / Owen Davies

Pt. 10. New Witch-Hunt?

30. Occult Survivors: The Making of a Myth / Philip Jenkins and Daniel Maier-Katkin

31. Wish Not to Know / Patrick Casement.