ABSTRACT
This book approaches witchcraft and demonology through literary records. The works discussed deal with the contemporary theories propounded by those who sought either to justify, or to refute persecution. Eight contributors of differing interests,a nd with different approaches to their subject, examine a selection of important, representative witchcraft texts – published in England, France, Germany, Italy and America – setting them within their intellectual context and analysing both their style and argument.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |20 pages
Pierre De Lancre's Tableau De L'inconstance Des Mauvais Anges Et Demons
The Sabbat Sensationalised
chapter |25 pages
Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World
Some Metamorphoses of Salem Witchcraft
chapter |19 pages
Two Late Scottish Witchcraft Tracts
Witch, Craft Proven and the Tryal of Witchcraft