The Witchcraft Reader offers a wide range of historical
perspectives on the subject of witchcraft in a single, accessible
volume, exploring the enduring hold that it has on human
imagination. The witch trials of the late Middle Ages and the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have inspired a huge and
expanding scholarly literature, as well as an outpouring of popular
representations. This fully revised and enlarged third edition
brings together many of the best and most important works in the
field. It explores the origins of witchcraft prosecutions in
learned and popular culture, fears of an imaginary witch cult, the
role of religious division and ideas about the Devil, the gendering
of suspects, the making of confessions and the decline of witch
beliefs. An expanded final section explores the various "revivals"
and images of witchcraft that continue to flourish in contemporary
Western culture. Equipped with an extensive introduction that
foregrounds significant debates and themes in the study of
witchcraft, providing the extracts with a critical context, The
Witchcraft Reader is essential reading for anyone with an interest
in this fascinating subject.
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