Witch Craze Links: European Witch Trials

European Witch Trials

• Best Witches. Joan Pontius maintains this excellent source of scholarly information. Also home of a mailing list of witch craze historians.
• Calendar of Witchcraft Trials 1300-1500. A chronology of witchcraze-related events in England.
• Folk Magic in Britain. Archaeological study of magical items.
• The Lindheim Witchtrials. The 1164 Schuler family witchtrials.
• Medieval Witchcraft in Scotland: A general history of maleficum in Scotland.
• The Scottish Witch-Hunt In Context. A day conference in Edinburgh, Feb. 12, 2000.
• Spirits, Witches, & Science. Why the rise of science encouraged belief in the supernatural in 17^th-century England.
• Witchcraft in Finnmark. Christmas witchcraft in 17th-century Finnmark (Northern Norway).
• Witchcraft Trials in Later Medieval England: A thesis about the social, political, and cultural factors of the later Middle Ages which brought about the witch craze.
• Witch-hunts of Scotland: How the trial of Doctor Fian Began a New Craze. The witchcraze in 16th- and 17th-century Scotland.