Witchcraft continues to play a role in the modern European imagination and in its cultures. This book brings together studies of its most important modern manif

Topics include modern pagan witchcraft, Satanism, and the continued existence of traditional witchcraft.

The end of the 18th century saw the end of witch trials. This volume charts the processes and reasons for decriminalizing witchcraft. It also surveys the social

Between the age of St. Augustine and the sixteenth century reformations magic continued to be both a matter of popular practice and of learned inquiry. This vol

The fifteenth to eighteenth centuries was a period of witchcraft prosecutions throughout Europe and modern scholars have now devoted a huge amount of research t