Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction 1. Witchcraft in the Courts
An Act against Conjurations, Witchcrafts, Sorcery and Enchantments 1541/2
An Act against Conjurations, Enchantments and Witchcrafts 1563
An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft and dealing with evil and wicked Spirits 1604
The Witchcraft Act 1735
Information and Examination: Suffolk 1645
Printed Information and Examination: Devon 1682
Indictment: Essex 1579 2. Witchcraft in Elizabethan and Jacobean England
The examination of John Walsh or Welshe, 1566
W.W., A true and just Recorde (London, 1582)
A Brief abstract of the Arraignment of nine Witches at Northampton, 1612 3. English Demonologies
George Gifford, A Dialogue concerning Witches and Witchcraftes (London, 1593)
Reginold Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft (London, 1584)
John Cotta, The Triall of Witch-craft (London, 1616) 4. Stage and Page: Witches in Literature
Thomas Middleton, The Witch (c.1613-15)
William Shakespeare, Macbeth (c. 1606)
John Ford, Thomas Dekker and William Rowley, The Witch of Edmonton (1621)
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (Books 1-3, 1590)
Ben Jonson, The Masque of Queenes (1609)
Miles Gale (?), 'Witchcraft ye practice of deluded minds' 5. Possession: The Devil and the Witch
Jesse Bee and others, The most Wonderful and True Storie, of a certain Witch named Alse Gooderige (London, 1597)
Edward Fairfax, 'A Discourse of witchcraft'  (1621-22) 6. Learned Men and Magic
Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus ( A text, 1604)
Anon, The Merry Devil of Edmonton (c.1604) 7. Magic and Money: A Trickster
Thomas Heywood, The Wise Woman of Hogsdon (c.1604)
Ben Jonson, The Alchemist (1610) 8. Witchcraft in America
Examination of Bridget Bishop
Indictment of Bridget Bishop for afflicting Mercy Lewis
Susannah Sheldon, evidence against Bridget Bishop and others
Cotton Mather, Wonders of the Invisible World (Boston and London, 1693)
Increase Mather, Cases of Conscience (Boston, 1693)
John Hale, A Modest Enquiry Into the Nature of Witchcraft (Boston, 1702) 9. Decline and Change: Restoration to Eighteenth Century
Joseph Glanvill, Saducismus Triumphatus (London, 1681)
Francis Hutchison, An Historical Essay Concerning Witchcraft (London, 1718)
Daniel Defoe, A System of Magick, or a History of the Black Art (London, 1727) Select Bibliography and Further Reading

About the Author

Marion Gibson is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter, UK. Her publications include Reading Witchcraft (Routledge, 1999), Possession, Puritanism and Print (Pickering and Chatto, 2006) and Witchcraft Myths in American Culture (Routledge, 2007).