Witch hunts : from Salem to Guantanamo Bay / by Rapley, Robert, 1926-2022

Table of Contents: “…Witches and fear of the devil -- The Bamberg and Wurzburg witch hunts, 1626-1630 -- The characteristics of a witch hunt -- The devil in Loudun -- The arbitrary terror of a witch hunt -- The Salem witches -- Hysteria set loose.…”
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Witch hunt : the revival of heresy / by McWilliams, Carey, 1905-1980

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Witch-hunt and conspiracy : the "ninja case" in East Java / by Herriman, Nicholas

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Witch-hunt and conspiracy : the "ninja case" in East Java / by Herriman, Nicholas

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Witch hunting and witch trials : the indictments for witchcraft from the records of 1373 assizes held for the Home Circuit A.D. 1559-1736 / by Ewen, C. L'Estrange (Cecil L'Estrange), 1877-1949

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Witch Hunting and Witch Trials: The Indictments for Witchcraft from the Records of 1373 Assizen Held for the Home Circuit AD 1559-1736; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; Ancient Laws against Witchcraft; Chaucer and Wycliffe; Growth of Witchcraft; Archbishop Cranmer; Elizabeth's Injunctions; Ecclesiastical Cases; Acts of Parliament; Definition of Terms; Punishments for Witchcraft, England; Punishments for Witchcraft, Scotland; Punishments for Witchcraft, Ireland; Condition of Gaols; Further Punishments; Military Action.…”
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Witch hunts in the western world : persecution and punishment from the inquisition through the Salem trials / by Pavlac, Brian Alexander, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…An introduction to the witch hunts -- Medieval origins of the witch hunts -- Witch hunting in the Holy Roman Empire -- The witch hunts in France -- Witch hunting in the British realms -- Witch hunting in southern Europe -- Witch hunting in northern and eastern Europe -- Beyond the witch hunts.…”
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Writing witch-hunt histories : challenging the paradigm /

Table of Contents: “…List of Ilustrations; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Challenging the Paradigm of Witch-Hunt Historiography; The Dubious History of the Witch-Hunts; Images and Witchcraft Studies: A Short History; Gender, Sex and Cultures of Trouble in Witchcraft Studies: European Historiography with Special Reference to Finland; Russian Witchcraft on Trial: Historiography and Methodology for Studying Russian Witches; Witchcraft and Ethnicity: A Critical Perspective on Sami Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Northern Norway; Topics of Persecution: Witchcraft Historiography in the Iberian World.…”
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Escaping Salem : the other witch hunt of 1692 / by Godbeer, Richard

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Satan & Salem : the witch-hunt crisis of 1692 / by Ray, Benjamin C., 1940-

Subjects: “…Witch hunting Massachusetts Salem History 17th century.…”
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Integrating New Technologies For Striga Control : Towards Ending The Witch-hunt. by Ejeta, Gebisa

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England's witchcraft trials by Winsham, Willow

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Hexengefangnis;fur den "arnpergher burgermeister" henneke von essen. by Hartmut Hegeler

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Witch-hunting in seventeenth-century New England : a documentary history, 1638-1693 /

Table of Contents: “…The early cases (1638-1651) -- The Parsons of Springfield : a family at odds (1651-1652) -- Suspicion : a widow's resistance (1653-1655) -- The high price of silence -- A handful of troublemakers (1652-1661) -- A long-running feud (1656-1675) -- One man's many accusers (1658-1669) -- Mother and daughter: -- The Holmans of Cambridge (1659-1660) -- The Hartford witch-hunt (1662-1665) -- A father's battle (1666-1667) -- One "cunning woman" : at odds with all (1668-1670) -- Three ambiguous cases (1669-1681) -- A servant "possessed" (1671-1672) -- Vehement suspicion : Eunice Cole of Hampton (1656-1680) -- Two grandparents, one grandson -- And a seaman (1679-1681) -- The strange death of Philip Smith (1683-1684) -- The "possession" of the Goodwin children -- The Salem witch-hunt -- The Stamford-Fairfield witch-hunt (1692-1693) -- Appendix : The Hartford witch-hunt : additional texts.…”
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"Evil people" : a comparative study of witch hunts in Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier / by Dillinger, Johannes

Table of Contents: “…We thought he had been caught already" : agents of witch hunting and the management of trials -- "Let no one accuse us of negligence" : the influence of the witch hunts in Swabian Austrai and the Electorate of Trier on other territories -- "A slippery and obscure business" : the end of the witch hunts.…”
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Shaping America. Lesson 4, Settling in New England. Part 8

Subjects: “…Witch hunting Massachusetts Salem.…”
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Zur Generalisierung, Klassifizierung und Stigmatisierung der >Frau als Hexe<. Ein Beitrag zur Erklärung der Hexenverfolgungen am Beispiel des ,Malleus maleficarum'. by Stange, Jörg

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Marks of an Absolute Witch : Evidentiary Dilemmas in Early Modern England. by Darr, Orna Alyagon

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Priest-king of the warriors and witch-queen of the others : cargo cult and witch hunt in Indo-European myth and reality / by Cigán, Michal, 1978-

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The Blantyre House prison affair : lessons from a modern-day witch hunt / by Murtagh, Tom, OBE

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Acknowledgements -- Some Key Abbreviations and Terminology -- CONTENTS -- About the author -- Foreword Martin Narey -- Preface -- 1 Sad Reflections -- 2 Career Choices -- 3 Fresh Start -- 4 The ATM Scant -- 5 The 'Charity Work' Debacle -- 6 The Chaucer Unit -- 7 Downhill Spiral -- 8 Operation Swynford -- 9 Aftermath -- 10 The Home Affairs Select Committee Investigation -- 11 A Modern-day Witch Hunt? -- Some of the items found during the search -- References -- Index -- Back cover…”
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Faustus on trial : the origins of Johann Spies's "Historia" in an age of witch hunting / by Baron, Frank

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Village Infernos and Witches' Advocates : Witch-Hunting in Navarre, 1608-1614. by Homza, Lu Ann

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An Unusual Inquisition Translated Documents from Heinricus Institoris's Witch Hunts in Ravensburg and Innsbruck. by S. Mackay, Christopher

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Est insolitum inquirere taliter : Latin and German documents from Heinricus Institoris's witch hunts in Ravensburg and Innsbruck /

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In the Shadow of Salem by Hite, Richard

“…Andover Witch Hunt of 1692…”
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Witchcraft and Magic : Contemporary North America

Table of Contents: “…Satanic Cults, Ritual Abuse, and Moral Panic: Deconstnrcting a Modern Witch-Hunt --…”
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Witchcraft and Magic : Contemporary North America

Table of Contents: “…Satanic Cults, Ritual Abuse, and Moral Panic: Deconstnrcting a Modern Witch-Hunt --…”
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Of women, outcastes, peasants, and rebels : a selection of Bengali short stories

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Beyond the witch trials : witchcraft and magic in Enlightenment Europe

Table of Contents: “…The aftermath of the witch-hunt in Dalarna /…”
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Beyond the witch trials : witchcraft and magic in Enlightenment Europe

Table of Contents: “…The aftermath of the witch-hunt in Dalarna /…”
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The science of demons : early modern authors facing witchcraft and the devil

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Analytical sociology : actions and networks

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Detestable and wicked arts : New England and witchcraft in the early modern Atlantic world by Moyer, Paul Benjamin, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : The Devil in New England -- "Hanged for a Witch" : Witch-hunting in New England before 1670 -- "Being instigated by the Devil" : The Crime of Witchcraft -- "A forward, discontented frame of spirit" : The New England Witch -- "The more women, the more witches" : Gender and Witchcraft -- "There was some mischief in it" : The Social Context of Witchcraft -- "Very awful and amazing" : Witch Panics and the Bewitched -- "According to God's Law" : Witch-hunting as a Judicial Process -- Conclusion : The Case of Ann Burt and Witch-hunting in the English Atlantic.…”
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Witchcraft, gender, and society in early modern Germany by Durrant, Jonathan B. (Jonathan Bryan)

Table of Contents: “…Ch. 1: Witch-hunting in Eichstatt -- ch. 2: The witches -- ch. 3: Friends and enemies -- ch. 4 : Food and drink -- ch. 5: Sex -- ch. 6: Health -- ch. 7: The abuse of authority -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 The interrogatory of 1617 -- Appendix 2 Occupations of suspected witches or their households.…”
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Lewd women and wicked witches : a study of the dynamics of male domination by Hester, Marianne, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; The introduction: the dynamics of male domination; From men partially to men primarily responsible for women's oppression; Men as primarily responsible for women's oppression; Towards a revolutionary feminist approach: male sexual violence against women; A revolutionary feminist approach: male sexuality as social control of women; The early modern witch-hunts I; The early modern witch-hunts II; The accused and the accusations against them; The conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index.…”
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Witchcraft, Power and Politics : Exploring the Occult in the South African Lowveld. by Niehaus, Isak (Isak Arnold)

Table of Contents: “…The ANC's Dilemma: The Symbolic Politics of Four Witch-Hunts in the 1990s -- 9. Conclusion: Witchcraft and the Postcolonial State.…”
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New Perspectives on witchcraft, magic and demonology. Volume 3, Witchcraft in the British Isles and New England

Table of Contents: “…The Fear of the King is Death: James VI and the Witches of East Lothian The Bargarran Witchcraft Trial: A Psychiatric Reassessment -- Irish Immunity to Witch-Hunting, 1534-1711 -- Like Images Made Black with the Lightning: Discourse and the Body in Colonial Witchcraft -- Tituba's Story -- Spectral Evidence, Non-Spectral Acts of Witchcraft and Confessions at Salem in 1692 -- New England Witch-Hunting and the Politics of Reason in the Early Republic…”
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We've been here all along : Wisconsin's early gay history by Wagner, R. Richard (Sociologist)

Table of Contents: “…Wisconsin gone Wilde -- Visible vice and its punishments -- "Down on the farm" -- Wisconsin fairy networking -- Acting jam in World War II -- Who needs a doctor? -- Witch hunts and the fairy deal -- Finding ourselves.…”
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The period of the witch trials by Ankarloo, Bengt

Table of Contents: “…; Confessionalism and Appellate Justice in the Empire; The ''Lotharingian Corridor'' and Francophone Witch-hunts; Witch-hunting in the Kingdom of France; Witchcraft and the Mediterranean Inquisitions; Witch-hunting after 1650: New and Old Patterns 49.…”
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When Frankie went to Hollywood : Frank Sinatra and American male identity by McNally, Karen, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Meet Frank Sinatra -- The postwar success story and working-class alienation -- Ethnic stereotyping and Italian American cultural identity -- Anticommunist witch hunts and Civil Rights -- Vulnerable masculinity and damaged veterans -- Male performance and swingin' bachelors -- Conclusion : chairman of the board.…”
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Endless war? : hidden functions of the "war on terror" by Keen, David, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Fuel on the fire: predictably counterproductive tactics in the 'war on terror' -- War systems: local and global -- Elusive enemies and the need for certainty --The new witch-hunt: finding and removing the source of evil -- The retreat from evidence-based thinking -- Action as propaganda -- Warding off the shame of powerlessness -- Shame, purity and violence -- Culture and magic.…”
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