THE WITCHCRAFT SOURCEBOOK

Edited by Brian P. Levack

Routledge Taylor & Francis Group

NEW YORK AND LONDON CONTENTS

List of illustrations v ix xi Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1

PARTI Witchcraft and magic in the Ancient World 5 1 The witch of Endor 7 2 A sorcery trial in the second century CE 10 3 Curse tablets against Roman charioteers 14 4 Apuleius: the power of witches 16 5 Horace: Canidia as a witch figure 22 6 Love magic in antiquity 25 7 St Augustine: demonic power in early Christianity 27

PART II The medieval foundations of witch-hunting 31 8 Canon law and witchcraft 33 9 St Thomas Aquinas: scholasticism and magic 36 10 The trial of Dame Alice Kyteler, 1324 39 11 Nicholas Eymeric: magic and heresy, 1376 43 12 The University of Paris: a condemnation of magic, 1398 47 13 Johannes Nider: an early description of the witches' sabbath, 1435 52 14 Heinrich Kramer: , i486 57 CONTENTS PART III Witch beliefs in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 69 15 Lambert Daneau: Protestantism and witchcraft, 1574 71 16 Henri Boguet: the threat of witchcraft, 1602 77 17 Nicolas Remy: the Devil's mark and flight to the sabbath, 1595 82 18 Martin Del Rio: the maleficia of witches, 1600 88 19 William Perkins: good and bad witches, 1608 94 20 Francesco Maria Guazzo: the pact with the Devil, 1608 99 21 Pierre de Lancre: dancing and sex at the sabbath, 1612 104 22 Cotton Mather: the apocalypse and witchcraft, 1692 110 23 James Hutchinson: children, the covenant, and witchcraft, 1697 113

PART IV The trial and punishment of witches 117 24 Innocent VIII: papal inquisitors and witchcraft, 1484 119 25 Heinrich Kramer: the torture of accused witches, i486 123 26 Jean Bodin: witchcraft as an excepted crime, 1580 128 27 Henri Boguet: the conduct of a witchcraft judge, 1602 135 28 King James VI: the swimming and pricking of witches, 1597 140 29 Friedrich Spee: a condemnation of torture, 1631 145 30 Sir Robert Filmer: the discovery of witches, 1652 154 31 Sir George Mackenzie: judicial caution in the trial of witches, 1678 158 32 King Louis XIV of France: the decriminalization of French witchcraft, 1682 163 33 : the prohibition of torture, 1705 167 34 The repeal of the English and Scottish witchcraft statutes, 1736 171

PART V Witchcraft trials in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 173 35 The confession of Niclas Fiedler at , 1591 175 36 The trial of Franc,atte Camont in Lorraine, 1598 179 37 The confessions of witches in Guernsey, 1617 185 38 The trial and confession of Elizabeth Sawyer, 1621 190 39 The confessions of Johannes Junius at Bamberg, 1628 198 CONTENTS

40 The witch-hunt at Eichstatt, 1637 203 41 The trial of Janet Barker and Margaret Lauder at Edinburgh, 1643 210 42 A Russian witch-trial at Lukh, 1657 214 43 The Salem witchcraft trials, 1692 220

PART VI Demonic possession and witchcraft 231 44 Johann Weyer: the possession of the nuns at Wertet, 1550 235 45 Henri Boguet: the possession of Loyse Maillat, 1598 239 46 The possession of Marthe Brossier, 1599 243 47 Edward Jorden: demonic possession and disease, 1603 249 48 The possessions at Loudun, 1634 252 49 Cotton Mather: the possession of the Goodwin children, 1688 261- 50 The possession of Christian Shaw, 1697 266

PART VII The skeptical tradition 275 51 Johann Weyer: witches as melancholies, 1563 277 52 Reginald Scot: the unreality of witchcraft, 1584 285 53 Alonso de Salazar Frfas: the unreliability of confessions, 1612 293 54 Thomas Hobbes: the nature of demons, 1651 299 55 Baruch Spinoza: the non-existence of the Devil, 1661, 1675 305 56 John Webster: witchcraft and the occult, 1677 307 57 Balthasar Bekker: the disenchantment of the world, 1695 313

PART VIII Dramatic representations of witchcraft 319 58 Seneca: the witch in classical drama 321 59 Fernando de Rojas: the witch figure in the Renaissance, 1499 325 60 Thomas Middleton: the witch in English drama, 1613 329 61 Hans Wiers-Jenssen: a Norwegian witchcraft drama, 1917 335

Index 345

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