Witchcraft - Magic

1 The Pykewater Library W. D. S. Pennington Witchcraft Bestiaries Adler, Margot. Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers and Other Pagans in America. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2006.

Anglo, Sydney, Ed. The Damned Art: Essays in the Literature of Witchcraft. New York, NY: Routledge, 2016.

Ankarloo, Bengt and Stuart Clark, Eds. Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: Ancient Greece and Rome. 1999.

Ankarloo, Bengt and Stuart Clark, Eds. Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: Biblical and Pagan Societies. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.

Arnold, Martin. The Dragon: Fear and Power. London, UK: Reaktion Books, 2019.

Atkinson, Jane Monnig. The Art and Politics of Wana Shamanship. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992.

Baker, Emerson W. A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Barber, Paul. Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010.

Barstow, Anne L. Witchcraze: A New History of European Witch Hunts. New York, NY: HarperOne, 1995.

Barry, Jonathan, Own Davies and Cornelie Usborne, Eds. Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Behringer, Wolfgang. Shaman of Obserstdorf: Chonrad Stoeckhlin and the Phantoms of the Night.

Trans. H. C. Erik Midelfort. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1998.

Bever, Edward. The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe: Culture, Cognition and Everyday Life. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Boyer, Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum. Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974.

Briggs, Robin. Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft (Second Edition). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2002.

Brock, Michelle D., Richard Raiswell and David R. Winter, Eds. Knowing Demons, Knowing Spirits in the Early Modern Period. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Bruce, Scott G., Ed. The Penguin Book of the Undead: Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2016.

Butler, Elizabeth M. Ritual Magic. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998.

Clark, Stuart. Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Cohn, Norman. Europe’s Inner Demons: The Demonization of Christians in Medieval Christendom (Revised Edition). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

2 Collins, David J., Ed. The Sacred and the Sinister: Studies in Medieval Religion and Magic.

University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019.

Couliano, Ioan P. Eros and Magic in the Renaissance. Trans. Margaret Cook. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Couliano, Ioan P. Out of This World: Otherwordly Journeys from Gilgamesh to Albert Einstein.

Boston, MA: Shambhala Publications, 1991.

Couliano, Ioan P. The Tree of Gnosis: Gnostic Mythology from Early Christianity to Modern Nihilism. Trans. H. S. Wiesner. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1992.

Davies, Owen. Popular Magic: Cunning-Folk in English History. New York, NY: Hambledon Continuum 2007.

Davis, Philip G. Goddess Unmasked: The Rise of Neopagan Feminist Spirituality. Dallas, TX: Spence Publishing, 1998.

De Certeau, Michel. The Possession at Loudun. Trans. Michael B. Smith. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

De Nebesky-Wojkowitz, Rene. Oracles and Demons of Tibet: The Cult and Iconography of the Tibetan Protective Deities. Kathmandu, Nepal: Book Faith India, 1996.

Ellis, Bill. Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2004.

Frankfurter, David. Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.

Gary, Gemma. The Black Toad: West Country Witchcraft and Magic. Llewellyn Publications, Woodbury, MN: 2020.

Gaskill, Malcolm. Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.

Ginzburg, Carlo. The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Trans. John and Anne C. Tedeschi. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.

Goodare, Julian. The European Witch-Hunt. New York, NY: Routledge, 2011.

Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. The Western Esoteric Traditions. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Groom, Nick. The Vampire: A New History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018.

Henningsen, Gustav. The Witches’ Advocate: Basque Witchcraft and the Spanish Inquisition.

Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, 1980.

Howe, Katherine, Ed. The Penguin Book of Witches. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2014.

Hufford, David J. The Terror That Comes in the Night: An Experience-Centered Study of Supernatural Assault Traditions. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.

Hutton, Ronald. The Witch: A History of Fear, From Ancient Times to the Present. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018.

Jaher, David. The Witch of Lime Street: SĂŠance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World. New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 2015.

Kapalo, James, Eva Pocs and William Ryan, Eds. The Power of Words: Studies on Charms and Charming in Europe. Budapest, Hungary: Central European University Press, 2013.

3 Karlsen, Carol F. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1998.

Kieckhefer, Richard. Magic in the Middle Ages (Second Edition). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Klaassen, Frank. The Transformations of Magic: Illicit Learned Magic int eh Later Middle Ages and Renaissance. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012.

Klaniczay, Gabor and Eva Pocs, Eds. Christian Demonology and Popular Mythology: Demons, Spirits, Witches, Vol. 2. Budapest, Hungary: Central European University Press, 2006.

Klaniczay, Gabor and Eva Pocs, Eds. Communicating with the Spirits: Demons, Spirits, Witches, Vol. 1. Budapest, Hungary: Central European University Press, 2005.

Klaniczay, Gabor and Eva Pocs, Eds. Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania.

New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Klaniczay, Gabor and Eva Pocs, Eds. Witchcraft, Mythologies and Persecutions: Demons, Spirits, Witches, Vol. 3. Budapest, Hungary: Central European University Press, 2008.

Kors, Alan Charles and Edward Peters, Eds. Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History (Second Edition). Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.

Lang, Benedek. Unlocked Books: Manuscripts of Learned Magic in the Medieval Libraries of Central Europe. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010.

Levack, Brian P. The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013.

Levack, Brian P. The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe. New York, NY: Routledge, 2006.

Levack, Brian P., Ed. the Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Lewis, I. M. Ecstatic Religion: A Study of Shamanism and Spirit Possession (Third Edition).

New York, NY: Routledge, 2005.

Maggi, Armando. In the Company of Demons: Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Mar, Alex. Witches of America. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

Mauss, Marcel. A General Theory of Magic. Trans. Robert Brain. New York, NY: Routledge, 2001.

Midelfort, H. C. Erik. Witch Hunting in Southwestern Germany, 1562-1684: The Social and Intellectual Foundations. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1972.

Monod, Paul Kleber. Solomon’s Secret Arts: The Occult in t eh Age of Enlightenment. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013.

Montesano, Marina. Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Morton, Peter A. The Trial of Tempel Anneke: Records of a Witchcraft Trial in Brunswick, Germany, 1663. Trans. Barbara Dahms. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2005.

Netanyahu, B. The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain. New York, NY: Random House, 1995.

4 Neusner, Jacob, Ernest S. Frerichs and Pail Virgil McCracken Flesher, Eds. Religion, Science, and Magic: In Concert and in Conflict. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Norton, Mary Beth. In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1691. New York, NY: Vintage, 2003.

Oberon, Aaron. Southern Cunning: Folkloric Witchcraft in the American South. Hampshire, UK: Moon Books, 2019.

Oldridge, Darren, Ed. The Witchcraft Reader. New York, NY: Routledge, 2008.

Ostling, Michael, Ed. Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits: ‘Small Gods’ at the Margins of Christendom. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Otten, Charlotte F., Ed. The Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1986.

Pocs, Eva, Ed. The Magical and Sacred Medical World. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Purkiss, Diane. At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Nymphs, and Other Troublesome Things. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2001.

Purkiss, Diane. Troublesome Things: A History of Fairies and Fairy Stories. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2000.

Purkiss, Diane. The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations.

New York, NY: Routledge, 1996.

Richards, Jake. Backwoods Witchcraft: Conjure and Folk Magic from Appalachia. Newburyport, MA: Weiser Books, 2019.

Rickels, Laurence A. The Vampire Lectures. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.

Roper, Lyndal. Witch Craze: Terror and Evil in Baroque Germany. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006.

Russell, Jeffrey B. and Brooks Alexander. A New History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics and Pagans. London, UK: Thames and Hudson, 2018.

Ryan, W. F. The Bathhouse at Midnight: An Historical Survey of Magic and Divination in Russia.

University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.

Savage, Michael. Stop Mass Hysteria: America’s Insanity from the Salem Witch Trials to the Trump Witch Hunt. New York, NY: Center Street/Hachette, 2018.

Sharpe, James. The Bewitching of Anne Gunter: A Horrible and True Story of Deception, Witchcraft, Murder, and the King of England. New York, NY: Routledge, 2001.

Sharpe, James. Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in Early Modern England. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.

Siegel, James. Naming the Witch. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005.

Stein, Rebecca L. and Philip L. Stein. The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft (Fourth Edition). New York, NY: Routledge, 2017.

Sugg, Richard. Fairies: A Dangerous History. London, UK: Reaktion Books, 2018.

Summers, Montague. The Werewolf in Lore and Legend. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2003.

Thomas, Jeannie Banks, Ed. Putting the Supernatural in Its Place: Folklore, the Hypermodern,

5 and the Ethereal. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 2015.

Thomas, Keith. Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1991.

Trevor-Roper, H. R. The European Witch-Craze of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries and Other Essays. New York, NY: Harper Torchbooks, 1969.

Versluis, Arthur. The New Inquisitions: Heretic-Hunting and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Totalitarianism. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Waite, Gary K. Heresy, Magic, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Walker, D. P. Spiritual and Demonic Magic: From Ficino to Campanella. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.

Wilby, Emma. Cunning-Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic. Sussex, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 2006.

Wilby, Emma. The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland. Sussex, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 2010.

Yates, Frances A. Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1991.