John Ashton, William Godwin, Howard Williams, Frederick George Lee, Walter Scott, Jules Michelet, M. Schele de Vere, 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
The History of Witchcraft in Europe
Darkness & Sorcery Collection: Lives of the Necromancers, The Witch Mania, Magic and Witchcraft, Glimpses of the Supernatural, Witch Stories…
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Table of Contents
The Superstitions of Witchcraft by Howard Williams
The Devil in Britain and America by John Ashton
Lives of the Necromancers by William Godwin
Witch, Warlock, and Magician by W. H. Davenport Adams
The Witch Mania by Charles Mackay
Magic and Witchcraft by George Moir
Witchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland by John G. Campbell
Witchcraft and Superstitious Record in the South-Western District of Scotland by John Maxwell Wood
Practitioners of Magic & Witchcraft and Clairvoyance by Bram Stoker
Witch Stories by E. Lynn Linton
Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch by Wilhelm Meinhold
Sidonia, the Sorceress by Wilhelm Meinhold
Glimpses of the Supernatural – Witchcraft and Necromancy by Frederick George Lee
Letters On Demonology And Witchcraft by Sir Walter Scott
La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet
Modern Magic by M. Schele de Vere
The Superstitions of Witchcraft
by Howard Williams
Preface
'The Superstitions of Witchcraft' is designed to exhibit a consecutive review of the characteristic forms and facts of a creed which (if at present apparently dead, or at least harmless, in Christendom) in the seventeenth century was a living and lively faith, and caused thousands of victims to be sent to the torture-chamber, to the stake, and to the scaffold. At this day, the remembrance of its superhuman art, in its different manifestations, is immortalised in the every-day language of the peoples of Europe.
The belief in Witchcraft is, indeed, in its full development and most fearful results, modern still more than mediæval, Christian still more than Pagan, and Protestant not less than Catholic.
PART I.
EARLIER FAITH
Chapter I.
The Origin, Prevalence, and Variety of Superstition—The Belief in Witchcraft the most horrid Form of Superstition—Most flourishing in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth