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Reference

Rossell Hope Robbins
The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. (hb) £9.50

Secondary sources

Christina Hole
Witchcraft in England; illustrated by Mervyn Peake. (hb) £6.00

Pennethorne Hughes
Witchcraft. (pb) £5.00

P. G. Maxwell-Stuart
Witchcraft: A History. (hb) £6.00
Witch Hunters: Professional Prickers, Unwitchers and Witch Finders of the Renaissance. (hb) £6.00

Roy and Ursula Radford
West Country Witchcraft. (pb) £6.00

Books & journals containing related material

James Cleugh
Love Locked Out: A Survey of Love, Licence and Restriction in the Middle Ages. (hb) £6.00

Andrew McCall
The Medieval Underworld. (hb) £7.00

Michael Roberts and Simone Clarke, eds.
Women and Gender in Early Modern Wales. (pb) £6.00

Shulamith Shahar
The Fourth Estate: A History of Women in the Middle Ages. (pb) £4.50

Ariel Toaff
Love, Work and Death: Jewish Life in Medieval Umbria. (pb) £9.50

R. C. Van Caenegem
History of Law, History, The Low Countries and Europe. (hb) £6.00

Thomas G. Watkin, ed.
Legal Record & Historical Reality: the 8th British Legal History Conference, 1987. (hb) £6.00

Merry E. Wiesner
Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe. (pb) £6.00

Modern fiction & literature

Dinah Lampitt
To Sleep No More. (pb) £6.00

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“non‑magic people (more commonly known as Muggles) were particularly afraid of magic in medieval times, but not very good at recognising it. On the rare occasion that they did catch a real witch or wizard, burning had no effect whatsoever. The witch or wizard would perform a basic Flame-Freezing Charm and then pretend to shriek with pain while enjoying a gentle, tickling sensation. Indeed, Wendelin the Wierd enjoyed being burnt so much that she allowed herself to be caught no fewer than forty-seven times in various disguises.” J. K. Rowling

“The great witch-hunt can in fact be taken as a supreme example of a massive killing of innocent people by a bureaucracy acting in accordance with beliefs which, unknown or rejected in earlier centuries, had come to be taken for granted, as self-evident truths. It illustrates vividly the power of the human imagination to build up a stereotype and its reluctance to question the validity of a stereotype once it is generally accepted.” Norman Cohn, Europe’s Inner Demons.

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