Witchcraft -- Early works to 1800
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A Collection of Modern Relations of Matter of Fact, Concerning Witches and Witchcraft Upon the Persons of People: To Which is Prefixed a Meditation Concerning the Mercy of God, in Preserving Us From the Malice and Power of Evil Angels ("Part I"; no further parts published; London: Printed for J. Harris, 1693), by Matthew Hale (multiple formats at archive.org)- The Discovery of Witchcraft: Proving, That the Compacts and Contracts of Witches With Devils and All Infernal Spirits or Familiars, Are But Erroneous Novelties and Imaginary Conceptions (London: Printed for A. Clark, 1665), by Reginald Scot
- Malleus Maleficarum (in Latin; Nuremberg: A. Koberger, 1494), by Heinrich Institoris and Jakob Sprenger
- Saducismus Triumphatus: or, Full and Plain Evidence Concerning Witches and Apparitions (London: Printed for J. Collins and S. Lownds, 1681), by Joseph Glanvill, trans. by Anthony Horneck, contrib. by Henry More
- Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft (London: Printed by R. C. and are to be sold by Giles Cavert, 1651), by Reginald Scot (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Select Cases of Conscience Touching Witches and Witchcrafts: By Iohn Gaule, Preacher of the Word at Great Staughton in the County of Huntington (London: Printed by W. Wilson for R. Clutterbuck, 1646), by John Gaule
- De la Démonomanie des Sorciers (in French; Paris: J. du Puys, 1587), by Jean Bodin
- Pandaemonium, or, The Devil's Cloyster: Being a Further Blow to Modern Sadduceism, Proving the Existence of Witches and Spirits (London: Printed for J. Walthoe, 1684), by Richard Bovet
- Tractatus de Confessionibus Maleficorum et Sagarum: Secundò Recognitus, et Auctior Redditus (in Latin; Trier: H. Bock, 1605), by Peter Binsfeld
- Der Hexenhammer (German translation of Malleus Maleficarum; 3 volumes; Berlin: H. Barsdorf, 1906), by Heinrich Institoris and Jakob Sprenger, trans. by Richard Schmidt
- The Certainty of The Worlds of Spirits and, Consequently, of The Immortality of Souls of The Malice and Misery of The Devils and The Damned, and of The Blessedness of The Justified, Fully Evinced By The Unquestionable Histories of Apparitions, Operations, Witchcrafts, Voices &c. (title page misdated; London: Printed for T. Parkhurst and J. Salisbury, 1691), by Richard Baxter
- Bezauberte Welt (3 volumes in German; Leipzig: Weygand, 1781-1782), by Balthasar Bekker, ed. by Joh. Salomo Semler, trans. by Johann Moritz Schwager
- Satan's Invisible World Discovered (Edinburgh: T. G. Stevenson, 1871), by George Sinclair, ed. by Thomas George Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
- The World Bewitch'd: or, An Examination of the Common Opinions Concerning Spirits, Their Nature, Power, Administration and Operations; As Also the Effects Men Are Able to Produce by Their Communication (only 1 volume published of this translation; London: Printed for R. Baldwin, 1695), by Balthasar Bekker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft: Wherein is Affirmed That There Are Many Sorts of Deceivers and Impostors, and Divers Persons Under a Passive Delusion of Melancholy and Fancy (London: Printed by J. M., 1677), by John Webster
- The Discovery of Witches: In Answer to Severall Queries, Lately Delivered to the Judges of Assize for the County of Norfolk (1647), by Matthew Hopkins (Gutenberg text)
- A Rehearsall Both Straung and True, of Hainous and Horrible Actes Committed by Elizabeth Stile, Alias Rockingham, Mother Dutten, Mother Deuell, Mother Margaret, Fower Notorious Witches, Apprehended at Winsore in the Countie of Barks, and at Abbington Arraigned, Condemned, and Executed, on the 26 Daye of Februarie Laste (1579) (page images with commentary at British Library)
- The Witch of Wapping: or, An Exact and Perfect Relation, of the Life and Devilish Practises of Joan Peterson, That Dwelt in Spruce Island, Near Wapping, Who Was Condemned for Practising Witch-Craft, and Sentenced to be Hanged at Tyburn, on Munday the 11th of April, 1652 (also with the confession of Prudence Lee; London: Printed for T. Spring, 1652) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Daemonologia: A Discourse on Witchcraft As it Was Acted in the Family of Mr. Edward Fairfax, of Fuyston, in the County of York, in the year 1621, Along With the Only two Eclogues of the Same Author Known to be in Existence (Harrogate: R. Ackrill, 1882), by Edward Fairfax, ed. by William Grainge (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Discourse of Witchcraft, As it Was Acted in the Family of Mr. Edward Fairfax of Fuystone in the County of York, in the Year 1621: From the Original Copy Written With His Own Hand (ca. 1858), by Edward Fairfax, ed. by Richard Monckton Milnes (page images at HathiTrust)
- Pandaemonium, or, The Devil's Cloyster: Being a Further Blow to Modern Sadduceism, Proving the Existence of Witches and Spirits (London: Printed for J. Walthoe, 1684), by Richard Bovet
- The Practice of Physick: or, The Law of God (called Nature) In The Body of Man (London: Printed for G. Calvert, 1666), by William Drage (page images at NIH)
- Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits Personating Men, Witchcrafts, Infallible Proofs of Guilt in Such as are Accused With That Crime (Boston: Benjamin Harris, 1693), by Increase Mather (page images at Virginia)
- A Modest Enquiry Into the Nature of Witchcraft (Boston: Printed by B. Green and J. Allen, 1702), by John Hale (page images at Virginia)
- The Wonders of the Invisible World: Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches, Lately Executed in New-England, And of Several Remarkable Curiosities Therein Occurring (unabridged edition; London: Reprinted for J. Denton, 1693), by Cotton Mather (page images at Virginia)
- The Wonders of the Invisible World: Observations as Well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils (based on the Boston first edition of 1693), by Cotton Mather, ed. by Reiner Smolinski (PDF at unl.edu)
- Memorable Providences Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions, by Cotton Mather (HTML at ukc.edu)
- More Wonders of the Invisible World (London: Printed for N. Hillar and J. Collier, 1700), by Robert Calef, contrib. by Cotton Mather
- The Wonders of the Invisible World: Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, by Cotton Mather, D.D.; To Which is Added a Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches, by Increase Mather, D.D., President of Harvard College (London: J. R. Smith, 1862), by Cotton Mather and Increase Mather (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- More Wonders of the Invisible World: or, The Wonders of the Invisible World Displayed, in Five Parts (Salem, MA: Reprinted by John D. and T. C. Cushing, Jr. for Cushing and Appleton, 1823), by Robert Calef
- The Wonders of the Invisible World: Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches, Lately Executed in New-England, And of Several Remarkable Curiosities Therein Occurring (unabridged edition; London: Reprinted for J. Denton, 1693), by Cotton Mather (page images at Virginia)
- The Wonders of the Invisible World: Observations as Well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils (based on the Boston first edition of 1693), by Cotton Mather, ed. by Reiner Smolinski (PDF at unl.edu)
- The Wonders of the Invisible World: Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, by Cotton Mather, D.D.; To Which is Added a Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches, by Increase Mather, D.D., President of Harvard College (London: J. R. Smith, 1862), by Cotton Mather and Increase Mather (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Daemonologie; and Newes From Scotland, ed. by G. B. Harrison, contrib. by King James I of England (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
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Filed under: Witchcraft- Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, by Charles Godfrey Leland (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- History of Salem Witchcraft: A Review of Charles W. Upham's Great Work (with The Planchette Mystery, Modern Spiritualism (by Stowe), and Dr. Doddridge's Dream; New York: S. R. Wells, 1872), ed. by Samuel R. Wells, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
- La Brujería y los Brujos de Cuba (in Spanish; Havana: Imp. de "El Cubano", 1900), by X.X.X.
- Of Credulity and Incredulity, in Things Natural, Civil, and Divine (London: Printed for T. Garthwait, 1668), by Meric Casaubon
- The Sorceress, by Jules Michelet, trans. by A. R. Allinson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Among My Books (first series), by James Russell Lowell (Gutenberg text)
- The Hartfordshire Wonder: or, Strange News from Ware (originally published 1669; reprinted with introductory note as Hertfordshire Folk Lore #5, 1909), by M. J., ed. by W. B. Gerish (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, by Walter Scott (HTML at Virginia)
- Narratives of Sorcery and Magic, From the Most Authentic Sources (New York: Redfield, 1852), by Thomas Wright
- Opera Omnia (in Latin; Amsterdam: P. van den Berge, 1660), by Johann Weyer (page images at HathiTrust)
- Witchcraft and Devil Lore in the Channel Islands: Transcripts from the Official Records of the Guernsey Royal Court, With an English Translation and Historical Introduction (Guernsey: Guille-Alles Library and T. M. Bichard, 1886), by John Linwood Pitts
- Danmarks Trylleformler (2 volumes in Danish; Copenhagen and Oslo: Gyldendal, Nordisk Forlag, 1917-1921), by F. Ohrt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Witch-Cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1921), by Margaret Alice Murray
- Witch Stories (London: Chapman and Hall, 1861), by E. Lynn Linton
- The History of Witchcraft and Demonology (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co.; New York: A. A. Knopf, 1926), by Montague Summers
- An History of Magic, Witchcraft, and Animal Magnetism (2 volumes; London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans; Edinburgh: A. and C. Black, 1851), by J. C. Colquhoun
- Histoire de la Magie: Du Monde Surnaturel et de la Fatalité à Travers les Temps et les Peuples (published under "P. Christian" pseudonym, in French; Paris: Furne, Jouvet et cie, ca. 1870), by Christian Pitois
- 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)
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