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BIBLIOGRAPHY



Rossell Hope Robbins, The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology (1959, reprinted 1984), concerned solely with European and North American witchcraft, with a valuable bibliography, and Witchcraft: An Introduction to the Literature of Witchcraft (1978), a bibliographical study based on the major collection at Cornell University Library; Julio Caro Baroja, The World of the Witches (1964, reprinted 1973; originally published in Spanish, 1961), the history of continental European witchcraft; George Lincoln Burr (ed.), Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 (1914, reprinted 1975), documents related to North American witchcraft; Norman Cohn, Europe's Inner Demons: An Enquiry Inspired by the Great Witch-Hunt (1975, reissued 1977), a socio-historical study; J.R. Crawford, Witchcraft and Sorcery in Rhodesia (1967), based on cases coming before the Rhodesian courts; C. L'Estrange Ewen (comp. and ed.), Witch Hunting and Witch Trials: The Indictments for Witchcraft from the Records of 1373 Assizes Held for the Home Circuit A.D. 1559-1736 (1929, reprinted 1971), and C. L'Estrange Ewen, Witchcraft and Demonianism: A Concise Account Derived from Sworn Depositions and Confessions Obtained in the Courts of England and Wales (1933, reprinted 1984), pioneering studies of English case records of the 16th and 17th centuries; Clyde Kluckhohn, Navaho Witchcraft (1944, reprinted 1962), an anthropological analysis; Henry Charles Lea (comp.) and Arthur C. Howland (ed.), Materials Toward a History of Witchcraft, 3 vol. (1939, reissued 1957), a documentary source for European witchcraft; Alan Macfarlane, Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England: A Regional and Comparative Study (1970); Lucy Mair, Witchcraft (1969), a popular and largely anthropological work focusing on Africa; M.G. Marwick, Sorcery in Its Social Setting: A Study of the Northern Rhodesia Cewa (1965, reprinted 1970); M.G. Warwick (ed.), Witchcraft and Sorcery: Selected Readings, 2nd ed. (1982), sociological writings from ancient to modern times; Edward Peters, The Magician, the Witch, and the Law (1978), evidence for the relationship between magicians and witches; and Jeffrey Burton Russell, Witchcraft in the Middle Ages (1972, reprinted 1984), and A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics and Pagans (1980, reprinted 1983), describing the social dynamics of witchcraft from ancient to modern times.





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