In 1995, after completing my PhD on magic and the Reformation in England, I found myself being interviewed on talkback radio about witchcraft. It was a rather uneven interview: the interviewer was far more interested in one of the callers, a self-confessed witch, than she was in my academic research.

Most of the book is a collection of source material about witchcraft, including folklore, theology and legal writings; the best collection I have come across. The new edition moreover contains expanded notes and introduction, giving a context and discussion of the material and the ideas as they developed in medieval Europe.

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Files: birkett-whither-witches.pdf