Documents of the Witchcraze

Fair is foul, and foul is fair. Hover through the fog and the filthy air! -- Macbeth

Disclaimer

This is NOT a page about Wiccans or neo-pagans, and I do not advocate the belief that Wiccans are Satan-worshippers and/or baby-killers. I am well aware that they are not. This is a starting point for historical research into the great witch craze of 1100-1700 AD. And please, don't ask me for spells.

• Court Records Vs. Individual Experience: A Trial at Bamberg. This is a poignant comparison between the court's version of trial and one man's personal experience of it.
• The Damnable Life and Death of Stubbe Peeter. The 1590 London chapbook account of the trial and execution of Peter Stubb, werewolf.
• 15th Century Witchcraft Documents. Contains Innocent VIII's Bull, Summis desiderantes from Dec. 5th, 1484, Johannes Nider's The Ant Hill from circa 1437, and extracts from The Hammer of Witches [Malleus Maleficarum] from 1486.
• Folklore and Witchcraft. Some popular stories around the time of the witch trials. (Updated October 20, 1998)
  Folklore and Witchcraft Allison Gross The Black Dog The Blacksmith's Wife of Yarrowfoot Brewery of Eggshells The Dark Daughter of the Norse King Edmund Robinson The Fiend Master Frau Trude The Girl Who Transformed Herself into a Hare The Golden-Haired Girl of Unst Hansel and Gretel The Haunted Mill The Lay of the Were-Wolf Lutey and the Mermaid The Miller Boy and the Cat Old Nan's Ghost Rapunzel Ridden By a Witch The Trip to the Brocken Trudd as Cat Two Eyes Too Many The Witch Witch and Hare Witch as Fox Witch as Hare The Witches' Excursion The Witches' Revenge A Witch is Recognized The Witch of Treva
• Holy Orders. A darkly comic look at what could happen if a witch hunter was alive and "well" today. Fiction.
• Personal Experiences With the Witch Craze. This is what has happened to me, my friends, and my neighbours.
• Thou Must Not Suffer a Woman to Live. Misogyny and why women shed sexuality in order to survive.

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Documents of the Witchcraze is copyright 1998 to Shantell Powell.