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• Lives of the Necromancers: or, An account of the Most Eminent Persons in Successive Ages, Who Have Claimed for Themselves, or to Whom Has Been Imputed by Others, the Exercise of Magical Power (London: Frederick J. Mason, 1834), by William Godwin (Gutenberg text)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• "Aberglaube aller Zeiten." (Strecker & Schröder, 1906), by Wilhelm Fischer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Witches' dance (W. Hall & Son, 1852), by William Vincent Wallace and Nicolò Paganini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vasilisa Prekrasnai︠a︡ (880-02 [S.-Peterburg] : Izdanīe Ėkspedit︠s︡īi zagotovlenīi︠a︡ gosudarstvennykh bumag, [1902], 1902), by A. N. Afanasʹev and Ivan I︠A︡kovlevich Bilibin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Scarecrow; or The Glass of Truth: A Tragedy of the Ludicrous, by Percy MacKaye (Gutenberg ebook)
• Thomas Dekker: Edited, with an introduction and notes by Ernest Rhys. Unexpurgated Edition, by Thomas Dekker, ed. by Ernest Rhys (Gutenberg ebook)

• Examinatio praecantationis (L. Estupiñan, 1620), by Andres de los Rios de Sandoval (page images at HathiTrust)

• Realizing the Witch: Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible (New York: Fordham University Press, 2016), by Richard Baxstrom and Todd Meyers
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Realizing the Witch: Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible (New York: Fordham University Press, 2016), by Todd Meyers and Richard Baxstrom (JSTOR ebook)

• The Patriot Witch (prepublication version, 2009), by Charles Coleman Finlay (PDF with commentary at ccfinlay.com)
• The Wizard of Karres (included on a Baen CD image; c2004), by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, and Dave Freer
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 196 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 195 MB
• The Curse of the Wise Woman (New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1933), by Lord Dunsany (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brood of the Witch-Queen, by Sax Rohmer (Gutenberg text)
• The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest, by William Harrison Ainsworth, illust. by John Gilbert (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Mirror for Witches (Sentry edition; Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1963), by Esther Forbes, illust. by Robert Gibbings (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Witches of Karres (included on a Baen CD image), by James H. Schmitz, ed. by Eric Flint
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 196 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 195 MB
• With Force and Arms: A Tale of Love and Salem Witchcraft (New York: J. S. Ogilvie Pub. Co., c1908), by Howard Roger Garis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Zoraida, or The witch of Naumkeag! A tale of the olden time. (Gleason's Publishing Hall, 1845), by B. Barker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vasilisa Prekrasnai︠a︡ (880-02 [S.-Peterburg] : Izdanīe Ėkspedit︠s︡īi zagotovlenīi︠a︡ gosudarstvennykh bumag, [1902], 1902), by A. N. Afanasʹev and Ivan I︠A︡kovlevich Bilibin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Flecker's magic, by Norman Matson (Gutenberg ebook)
• A mirror for witches : in which is reflected the life, machinations, and death of famous Doll Bilby, who, with a more than feminine perversity, preferred a demon to a mortal lover; here is also told how and why a righteous and most awfull judgement befell her, destroying both corporeal body and immortal soul, by Esther Forbes, illust. by Robert Gibbings (Gutenberg ebook)
• Conjure wife, by Fritz Leiber, illust. by Frank Kramer (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Saint of the Dragon's Dale: A Fantastical Tale, by William Stearns Davis, illust. by Margaret West Kinney and Troy Kinney (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Blue Star, by Fletcher Pratt (Gutenberg ebook)
• Demonien ruhtinatar: Kertomus (in Finnish), by Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol' (Gutenberg ebook)
• Die Hexenrichter von Würzburg: Historische Novelle (in German), by Franz von Seeburg (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Witch of Salem; or, Credulity Run Mad, by John R. Musick, illust. by F. A. Carter (Gutenberg ebook)

• Der verbrecherische aberglaube und die Satansmessen im 17 jahrhundert. (Strecker & Schröder, 1906), by Wilhelm Fischer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Blue-Nosed Witch (New York: Holiday House, c1956), by Margaret Embry, illust. by Carl Rose (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zauberlinda, the Wise Witch (Chicago and Lansing: R. Smith Printing Co., c1901), by Eva Katherine Clapp, illust. by Mabel Tibbitts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History of the Little Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe (London and New York: G. Routledge and Co., ca. 1858), by Edward Dalziel, George Dalziel, and William McConnell (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Witch of the Juniper Walk, and Other Fairy Tales (London: Gay and Bird, 1895), by Mrs. Frank May (page images at Florida)
• Malcolm MacBeth (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1946), by John Storm, Janice Dohm, and Charles Alston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The marvelous land of Oz : being an account of the further adventures of the Scarecrow and Tim Woodman ... a sequel to the Wizard of Oz (The Reilly & Britton co., 1904), by L. Frank Baum, John R. Neill, and Reilly & Britton Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kobboltozo : a sequel to the last of the Huggermuggers (Lee and Shepard, 1869), by Christopher Pearse Cranch, H.O. Houghton & Company, and Lee and Shepard (page images at HathiTrust)
• English fairy tales (Macmillan, 1918), by Flora Annie Webster Steel and Arthur Rackham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glinda of Oz : in which are related the exciting experiences of Princess Ozma of Oz, and Dorothy, in their hazardous journey to the home of the Flatheads, and to the magic isle of the Skeezers, and how they were rescued from dire peril by the sorcery of Glinda the Good (Reilly & Lee, 1920), by L. Frank Baum, Gore Vidal, John R. Neill, and Reilly & Lee Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Luck of Lingborough. (G. Bell, 1874), by Juliana Horatia Ewing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Friends and foes from fairy land (Longmans, Green, 1886), by Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen Brabourne, Linley Sambourne, Gresham Press, Unwin Brothers (Firm), and Green Longmans (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Maid of Salem towne (Penn Pub. Co., 1906), by Lucy Foster Madison, Frank T. Merrill, and Penn Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vasilisa Prekrasnai︠a︡ (880-02 [S.-Peterburg] : Izdanīe Ėkspedit︠s︡īi zagotovlenīi︠a︡ gosudarstvennykh bumag, [1902], 1902), by A. N. Afanasʹev and Ivan I︠A︡kovlevich Bilibin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Witch of the Glens, by Sally Watson, illust. by Barbara Werner (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rapunzel (New York: Holiday House, c1982), by Barbara Rogasky, Trina Schart Hyman, Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Holiday House (Firm), and Dr. Robert L. Egolf Collection, illust. by Trina Schart Hyman (page images at Florida)
• The six swans (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, c1973), by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Alfred William Hunt, Adrie Hospes, McGraw-Hill Book Company, and Dr. Robert L. Egolf Collection (page images at Florida)
• Wanda Gág's Jorinda and Joringel (New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., c1978), by Wanda Gág, Margot Tomes, Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Cathy Altholz, and McCann & Geoghegan Coward (page images at Florida)
• The history of the little old woman who lived in a shoe (Boston: Shepard, Clark, and Brown, 1856), by Clark and Brown Shepard (page images at Florida)
• Kobboltozo (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869), by Christopher Pearse Cranch (page images at Florida)
• The witch of the Juniper Walk (London: Gay and Bird, 1895), by Frank May (page images at Florida)
• The thirsty sword (London et al.: Blackie & Son, n.d.), by Robert Leighton, illust. by Alfred Pearse (page images at Florida)
• The One-eyed griffin, and other fairy stories (London, New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1897), by Herbert Inman, illust. by E. A Mason (page images at Florida)
• Jorinda and Joringel (New York: Scribner, [1968]), by Wilhelm Grimm, Adrienne Adams, Elizabeth Shub, Jacob Grimm, Adrienne Adams, and Charles Scribner's Sons (page images at Florida)
• The crown pitiful (London: Truslove & Hanson, 1895), by Ella Fuller Maitland, illust. by Katheleen Lucas (page images at Florida)
• The magic oak tree (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894), by Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen Brabourne (page images at Florida)
• The owl king and other fairy stories (London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1898), by Herbert Inman (page images at Florida)

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