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List of illustrations Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments Introduction PART 1 Witchcraft and magic in the ancient world 1 The witch of Endor 2 A sorcery trial in the second century CE 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 PART II The medieval foundations of witch-hunting 8 Canon law and witchcraft 9 St Thomas Aquinas: scholasticism and magic 10 The trial of Dame Alice Kyteler, 1324 11 Nicholas Eymeric: magic and heresy, 1376 12 The University of Paris: a condemnation of magic, 1398 13 Johannes Nider: an early description of the witches' sabbath, 1437 14 Heinrich Kramer: Malleus maleficarum, 1486 PART III Witch beliefs in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 15 Lambert Daneau: Protestantism and witchcraft, 1574 16 Henri Boguet: the threat of witchcraft, 1602 17 Nicolas Remy: the Devil's mark and flight to the sabbath, 1595 18 Martin Del Rio: the maleficia of witches, 1600 19 William Perkins: good and bad witches, 1608 20 Francesco Maria Guazzo: the pact with the Devil, 1608 21 Richard Bernard: The Demonic Pact in England, 1630 22 Pierre de Lancre: dancing and sex at the sabbath, 1612 23 Cotton Mather: the apocalypse and witchcraft, 1692 24 James Hutchinson: children, the covenant, and witchcraft, 1697 PART IV The trial and punishment of witches 25 Innocent VIII: papal inquisitors and witchcraft, 1484 26 Heinrich Kramer: the torture of accused witches, 1486 27 Jean Bodin: witchcraft as an excepted crime, 1580 28 Henri Boguet: the conduct of a witchcraft judge, 1602 29 King James VI: the swimming and pricking of witches,1597 30 Friedrich Spee: a condemnation of torture, 1631 31 Sir Robert Filmer: the discovery of witches, 1652 32 Sir George Mackenzie: judicial caution in the trial of witches,1678 33 King Louis XIV of France: the decriminalization of French witchcraft, 1682 34 Christian Thomasius: the prohibition of torture, 1705 35 The repeal of the English and Scottish witchcraft statutes, 1736 PART V Witchcraft trials in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 36 The confession of Walpurga Hausmannin, 1587 37 The confession of Niclas Fiedler at Trier, 1591 38 The trial of Francatte Camont in Lorraine, 1598 39 The confessions of witches in Guernsey, 1617 40 The confessions of Johannes Junius at Bamberg, 1628 41.
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The Sourcebook provides students of the history of witchcraft with a broad range of sources, many of which have been translated into English for the first time, with commentary and background by one of the leading scholars in the field. This second edition includes an extended section on the witch trials in England, Scotland and New England, fully revised and updated introductions to the sources to include the latest scholarship and a short bibliography at the end of each introduction to guide students in their further reading. Levack shows how notions of witchcraft have changed over time and considers the connection between gender and witchcraft and the nature of the witch's perceived power. Including trial records, demonological treatises and sermons, literary texts, narratives of demonic possession, and artistic depiction of witches, the documents reveal how contemporaries from various periods have perceived alleged witches and their activities. Catholics and Protestants alike feared that the Devil and his human confederates were destroying Christian society. During these years the prominent stereotype of the witch as an evil magician and servant of Satan emerged.
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Many of the sources come from the period between 14, when more than 100,000 people - most of them women - were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe and colonial America. The Witchcraft Sourcebook, now in its second edition, is a fascinating collection of documents that illustrates the development of ideas about witchcraft from ancient times to the eighteenth century.