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The Witchcraft Bibliography Project
www.hist.unt.edu/web_resources/witchcraft_bib.pdf
Bibliographical information about books and articles in many languages
concerning witchcraft in early modern Europe.
Salem Witch Museum
www.salemwitchmuseum.com
Tour of the museum plus information on the history of the 1692 witch
trials.
Time Traveller's Guide to Stuart England
www.channel4.com/history/microsites
/H/history/guide17/index.html
A full overview of the period in which the East Anglian witch
trials occurred.
Books
Witchcraft in Early Modern England by James Sharpe (Longman, 2001)
£12.99
Beginning with a discussion of witchcraft in the early modern period,
and charting the witch panics that took place at this time, the author
goes on to look at the historical debate surrounding the causes of the
legal persecution of witches.
Matthew Hopkins: Witch Finder General by Richard Deacon (Frederick Muller, 1976). Out of print; possibly available from libraries and second-hand bookshops.
The Salem Witch Trials Reader by Frances Hill (Da Capo, 2000)
£14.50
This book illustrates the historical background to the witch hunt and
shows how the trials have been represented by historians.
Salem Possessed: The social origins of witchcraft by Paul Boyer
and Stephen Nissenbaum (Harvard University Press, 1974). Out of print;
possibly available from libraries and second-hand bookshops.
This study of the Puritan village and the people involved in the witch
trials of 1692 provides insight into the causes and implications of this
notorious episode in American history.
