Witchcraft in the courts
Acts: how was witchcraft defined?
An Act against Conjurations, Witchcrafts, Sorcery, and Enchantments 1541/2
An Act against Conjurations, Enchantments and Witchcrafts 1563
An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft and dealing with evil and wicked Spirits 1604
The Witchcraft Act 1735
Legal documents: how was witchcraft prosecuted?
Information, Examinations and Indictments
Witchcraft in Elizabethan and Jacobean England
A cunning man in a church court
The examination of John Walsh or Welshe, 1566
Witches and magistrates: Essex 1582
A true and just Recorde (London, 1582) / W.W.
Witchcraft at the Assizes: Northamptonshire 1612
A Brief abstract of the Arraignment of nine Witches at Northampton, 1612
English demonologies
Warnings from a witchcraft believer
A Dialogue concerning Witches and Witchcraftes (London, 1593) / George Gifford
Sweeping sceptic
The Discoverie of Witchcraft (London, 1584) / Reginald Scot
Expert observer
The Triall of Witch-craft (London, 1616) / John Cotta
Stage and page
witches in literature
Comedy
The Witch (1613-15?) / Thomas Middleton
Tragedy
Macbeth (1606?) / William Shakespeare
Tragi-comic documentary
The Witch of Edmonton (1621) / John Ford, Thomas Dekker, William Rowley
Poetry
The Faerie Queene (Books 1-3, 1590) / Edmund Spenser
The Masque of Queenes (1609) / Ben Jonson
'Witchcraft ye practice of deluded minds' / Miles Gale
Possession
the devil and the witch
The Boy of Burton.