Add to ORKGIn 1579, a court in Essex, England arraigned thirteen-year-old Thomas Lever for acting as an assistant to William Randall, a conjurer suspected of leading a group of male witches. The court claimed young Thomas “mixed potions and was familiar with all [of Randall’s] workings.”1 Yet for Raphael Holinshed, the commentator on the trial, the case was unique only in the age of the defendant. Holinshed gives a stark example of a common view of the witch trials by noting “That her Majesty is sore oppressed by these witches and devil- mongers is now common knowledge, but that a child should be in such company is a singular and amazing thing.”2 By analyzing Holinshed’s commentary on the trial, rather than age or gender of the defendant, historians c...
Heinrich Kramer’s Malleus Maleficarum was a medieval treatise on witchcraft, describing the nature o...
The document presented here is the formal proceedings for witchcraft against Isobel Duff, whose tria...
The document presented here is the formal proceedings for witchcraft against Isobel Duff, whose tria...
By the end of the fifteenth century, demonological beliefs were well established by demonologists, i...
By the end of the fifteenth century, demonological beliefs were well established by demonologists, i...
This paper analyzes how literature produced during the early modern period fictionalized the identit...
This edition of Oxford, Bodleian, e Mus. 173, ff. 37r-v presents three rituals from late sixteenth-c...
The history of witchcraft as a crime in England maps roughly onto the early modern period as a whole...
This paper examines the dynamics of witchcraft trials in the Lorraine through a selection of late si...
This thesis explores the event in Manningtree, a small town in Essex, in 1645 that began the two‐yea...
In the United States, witchcraft has become synonymous with Salem. When it comes to the history of w...
From the very earliest times, mankind recognized the existence of witchcraft, but, apart from isolat...
This thesis examines the use of physical evidence to prove the identity of witches in witchcraft tri...
This article focuses on the connection between Shakespeare’s Macbeth and the famous English witch tr...
This work deals with the roles faith and politics played in the hearts and minds of those people who...
Heinrich Kramer’s Malleus Maleficarum was a medieval treatise on witchcraft, describing the nature o...
The document presented here is the formal proceedings for witchcraft against Isobel Duff, whose tria...
The document presented here is the formal proceedings for witchcraft against Isobel Duff, whose tria...
By the end of the fifteenth century, demonological beliefs were well established by demonologists, i...
By the end of the fifteenth century, demonological beliefs were well established by demonologists, i...
This paper analyzes how literature produced during the early modern period fictionalized the identit...
This edition of Oxford, Bodleian, e Mus. 173, ff. 37r-v presents three rituals from late sixteenth-c...
The history of witchcraft as a crime in England maps roughly onto the early modern period as a whole...
This paper examines the dynamics of witchcraft trials in the Lorraine through a selection of late si...
This thesis explores the event in Manningtree, a small town in Essex, in 1645 that began the two‐yea...
In the United States, witchcraft has become synonymous with Salem. When it comes to the history of w...
From the very earliest times, mankind recognized the existence of witchcraft, but, apart from isolat...
This thesis examines the use of physical evidence to prove the identity of witches in witchcraft tri...
This article focuses on the connection between Shakespeare’s Macbeth and the famous English witch tr...
This work deals with the roles faith and politics played in the hearts and minds of those people who...
Heinrich Kramer’s Malleus Maleficarum was a medieval treatise on witchcraft, describing the nature o...
The document presented here is the formal proceedings for witchcraft against Isobel Duff, whose tria...
The document presented here is the formal proceedings for witchcraft against Isobel Duff, whose tria...