ABSTRACT

Witchcraft and magical beliefs have captivated historians and artists for millennia, and stimulated an extraordinary amount of research among scholars in a wide range of disciplines. This new collection, from the editor of the highly acclaimed 1992 set, Articles on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology, extends the earlier volumes by bringing together the most important articles of the past twenty years and covering the profound changes in scholarly perspective over the past two decades. Featuring thematically organized papers from a broad spectrum of publications, the volumes in this set encompass the key issues and approaches to witchcraft research in fields such as gender studies, anthropology, sociology, literature, history, psychology, and law. This new collection provides students and researchers with an invaluable resource, comprising the most important and influential discussions on this topic. A useful introductory essay written by the editor precedes each volume.

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Richard Golden

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acquittal-

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Marijke Gijsllrijl-Ho fstTfl Witchcraft

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\larijke Gijswijt-Hofstra

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Social History

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" Hungary 161

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If one accepts

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all levels of trial really relevant to conflicts

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trial after

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still

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girls in her neighbourhood while she herself had a

It the husband attempted to

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this that theirs a practice free of magic, e. a

trial testimonies reported of typical conflicts be-

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filled in the gap that existed between the requirements of city

(t.e. that of the "pious

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OF THE EPISCOPAL TRIBUNAL OF NOVARA

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IT ZERLAS

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EIGHT

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The Visions il Witch in 1599:

A Window on the Suojugation or Mexico's Hunter-Gatherers

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Bibliography

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of EI"ope.

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Table 1: Proportion of Persons of Known Gender to Total Numbers Accused. Period Known Total

Gender Accused Gender 1300-1420 1421-1500 5940 1.68 (298) (514)

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Table 6: Mean Number of Table 7: Mean Number of Persons Killed Killed per Trial by Type of per Trial by Type Court and Period. of Court. Period Court Mean Killed Killed Ecclesia-Ecclesia-

Court Mean # .6563 1300-1420 .3529 (64) (17) Secular .5304 1421-1500 Ecclesia- .7660 (181) (47) Entire pop 5633 1300-1420 Secular .2432 (245) (37) 1421-1500 Secular .6042

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Table 9: Reproduction Magic as a Proportion of All Magic. Period

Cases Cases Repro Repro -Magic 1300-1419 17.2 1420-1500 11.25

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Table 12: Sex Ratio of Females to All Ac-cused by City Size. Size Entire pop.

Females (349 ) 15-29 (25) (458)

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Table 14: Mean Number of Per-sons Killed per Trial by Country. country Mean # Killed Britain .28

(65) (14) France (103) (25) Switzerland .75 (61) .6157 (268)

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Table 18: Two Ideal Types of Witch Persecution 1300-1500 Period Persecu- tion Type

1300-1420 1420-1500 "Medieval" "Early-Modern" Mean Low High Severity Witch #Males=#Females #Females>#Males Gender Court #Eccle=#Secular #Secular>#Eccle +175 2/3 E.M. Switzer- 2/3 E.M. land France +200 +69 +249 2/3 Med. +143 +210 2/3 Med. Britain +150 +123 Medieval

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REVIEW AND C01'r.1JefENJ'.ARY

SHAHPE

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Review and Commentary

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J.A Sharpe

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of the

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of Bamberg's large-

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The Persecution

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The Persecution of Witches

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The Persecution of Witches

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Hartmul Lehmann

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Acknowledgments