The Great Book of Witchcraft
Trials, Demonology, Folklore, and Gothic Tales of Magic, Persecution, and Social PanicBy Howard Williams, Frederick George Lee, Walter Scott, Jules Michelet, M. Schele de Vere, John Ashton, William Godwin, W. H. Davenport Adams, Charles Mackay, George Moir, Margaret Murray, St. John D. Seymour, John G. Campbell, John Maxwell Wood, Bram Stoker, E. Lynn Linton, Wilhelm Meinhold, Cotton Mather, Increase Mather, Charles Wentworth Upham, M. V. B. Perley, James Thacher, William P. Upham, Samuel Roberts Wells, John M. Taylor, Allen Putnam
Length274h 40m
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The Great Book of Witchcraft gathers a capacious archive of superstition, persecution, folklore, theology, and Gothic imagination. Its selections range from clerical and legal inquiry to antiquarian description, historical narrative, ethnographic speculation, and supernatural fiction, revealing "witchcraft" as a changing cultural category rather than a single belief. Accounts of Salem and European trials stand beside studies of charms, divination, demons, and rural custom, while Gothic materials lend the volume an imaginative intensity that complicates purely documentary readings. The contributors represent several centuries of Anglo-American and European writing: Puritan ministers and trial chroniclers, Enlightenment and nineteenth-century historians, folklorists, social commentators, and novelists. Collectively, they illuminate the movement from providential interpretations of malefic power toward historical criticism, comparative folklore, and literary reinvention. Their differing confessional, national, and intellectual commitments make visible the tensions between fear and skepticism, institutional authority and vernacular knowledge, record and romance that have shaped witchcraft's enduring history. Recommended for students of folklore, religious history, Gothic literature, and the history of ideas, this volume offers an unusually broad encounter with the witchcraft tradition. Readers will find both indispensable primary voices and influential retrospective interpretations, placed in productive dialogue. It is a valuable invitation to examine how accusations, legends, scholarship, and fiction continually remake the figure of the witch.
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GenreSpirituality and Religion, Literary Classics
Length274 hrs 40 mins
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Publish dateJun 4, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Psychic Phenomena of Jamaica (Annotated)
26Chapter III.
2The Great Book of Witchcraft
27Chapter IV.
3Introduction
28Chapter V.
4The Superstitions of Witchcraft by Howard Williams
29Chapter VI.
5Preface
30Chapter VII.
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6PART I. EARLIER FAITH: Chapter I.
31Chapter VIII.
7PART II. MEDIÆVAL FAITH
32Chapter IX.
8Chapter I.
33Chapter X.
9Chapter II.
34Chapter XI.
10Chapter III.
35Chapter XII.
11PART III. MODERN FAITH
36Chapter XIII.
12Chapter I.
37Chapter XIV.
13Chapter II.
38Chapter XV.
14Chapter III.
39Chapter XVI.
15Chapter IV.
40Chapter XVII.
16Chapter V.
41Chapter XVIII.
17Chapter VI.
42Chapter XIX.
18Chapter VII.
43Chapter XX.
19Chapter VIII.
44Chapter XXI.
20Chapter IX.
45Chapter XXII.
21Chapter X.
46Chapter XXIII.
22The Devil in Britain and America by John Ashton
47Chapter XXIV.
23Preface
48Witchcraft in Europe
24Chapter I.
49History of Magic and Witchcraft
25Chapter II.
50Magic and Witchcraft by George Moir
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