This bibliography is organized topically, although many of the works address several of the topics presented here.  I’m always looking for more sources, so if you know of books, articles, or dissertations not listed here that deal with these topics, please e-mail the citations to me, and I will gladly add them to this bibliography.  This is a work in progress and will continuously developing.

Bibliography

Ankarloo, B. and S. Clark

1999 Witchcraft and magic in Europe : the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.

Briggs, K. M.

1953 Some 17th-century books of magic. Folk-Lore 64(4):445-62.

Briggs, R.

1996     Witches & Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft. Penguin Books, New York.

Butler, J.

1979 Magic, Astrology, and the Early American Religious Heritage.  The American Historical Review 84(2):317-346.

1980 Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.

Clark, S. and P. T. J. Morgan

1976 Religion and magic in Elizabethan Wales : Robert Holland's dialogue on witchcraft. Journal of Ecclesiastical History 27:31-46.

Davies, O.

1997 Methodism, the clergy, and the popular belief in witchcraft and magic. History 82:252-65.

1998 Newspapers and the popular belief in witchcraft and magic in the modern period. Journal of British Studies 37:139-65.

1999 Witchcraft, magic and culture, 1736-1951. Manchester University Press, Manchester.

2000 A people betwitched : witchcraft and magic in nineteenth-century Somerset. Owen Davies, Bruton.

2001 Cunning-folk : popular magic in English history. Hambledon, London.

Davies, O. and W. De Blecourt

2004 Beyond the witch trials : witchcraft and magic in Enlightenment Europe. Manchester University Press, Manchester.

2005 Witchcraft continued : popular magic in modern Europe. Manchester University Press, Manchester.

Demos, J.

1970 Little commonwealth : family life in Plymouth Colony. Oxford University Press, New York.

1971 Entertaining Satan : witchcraft and the culture of early New England. Oxford University Press, New York.

Evans, G. E.

1960 Horse in the furrow. Faber, London.

1961 Ask the fellows who cut the hay. 2d ed. Faber, London.

1962 Pattern under the plough : aspects of the folk-life of East Anglia. Faber, London.

Frazer, J. G.

1993 The golden bough : a study in magic and religion. Wordsworth reference. Wordsworth Editions, Ware, Hertfordshire, England.

Garrett, C.

1977 Women and Witches : Patterns of Analysis. Signs journal of women in culture & society 3(2):461-70.

Geertz, H. and K. V. S. Thomas

1975 An anthropology of religion and magic. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 6(1):71-109.

Godbeer, R.

1992 The devil's dominion : magic and religion in early New England. Cambridge University Press ;, New York, Cambridge [England],.

Hoggard, B.

2004 The Archaeology of Counter-witchcraft and Popular Magic. In Beyond the Witch Trials: Witchcraft and Magic in Enlightenment Europe, edited by O. Davies and W. De Blecourt. Manchester University Press, Manchester.

Hole, C.

1947 Witchcraft in England, New York and Toronto.

Houlbrooke, R. A.

2004 Magic and witchcraft in the diocese of Winchester, 1491-1570. In Cross, crown & community : religion, government, and culture in early modern England, 1400-1800, edited by D. J. B. Trim and P. J. Balderstone, pp. 113-41. Peter Lang, Oxford.

Howland, A. C.

1939 Materials towards a history of witchcraft. Collected by Henry Charles Lea. 3 vols, Philadelphia, PA and London.

Karlsen, C. F.

1998 The devil in the shape of a woman : witchcraft in colonial New England. 1st Norton pbk. ed. Norton, New York.

Levack, B. P.

2001 New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic and Demonology : vol. III : Witchcraft in the British Isles and New England. Routledge, New York.

2002 New perspectives on witchcraft, magic and demonology : Vol. IV : Gender and witchcraft. Routledge, New York; London.

2003 The witchcraft sourcebook. Routledge, New York.

Macfarlane, A.

1977 Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart Essex. In Cockburn, James Swanston (ed.), Crime in England, 1550-1800 ( 1977), pp. 72-89.

1978 Civility and the decline of magic. In Civil histories : essays presented to Sir Keith Thomas, edited by P. Burke, B. H. Harrison and P. Slack, pp. 145-59. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

MacLean, C. I.

1959 Traditional beliefs in Scotland. Scottish Studies 3:189-200.

Maple, E.

1965 Witchcraft and magic in the Rochford Hundred. Folk-Lore 76(Fall):213-24.

Marshburn, J. H.

1971 Murder and Witchcraft in England, 1550-1640, as recounted in pamphlets, ballads, broadsides and plays, Norman (OK).

Maxwell-Stuart, P. G.

2001 Satan's conspiracy : magic and witchcraft in sixteenth-century Scotland. Tuckwell, East Linton.

Merrifield, R.

1954 The use of bellarmines as witch-bottles. Guildhall Miscellany 1(3):3-15.

1955 Witch bottles and magical jugs. Folk-Lore 66(1):195-207.

1956 The archaeology of ritual and magic. New Amsterdam, New York.

Myers, J. E. and A. C. Lehmann

1989 Magic, witchcraft, and religion : an anthropological study of the supernatural. 2nd ed. Mayfield Pub. Co., Mountain View, Calif.

Nattrass, M.

1956 Witch posts and early dwellings in Cleveland. Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 39(153):136-46.

Notestein, W.

1911 A history of witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718, Washington (DC).

Rushton, P.

1980 A note on the survival of popular Christian magic. Folk-Lore 91:115-18.

Sawyer, R. C.

1989 "Strangely handled in all her lyms" : witchcraft and healing in Jacobean England. Journal of Social History 22(3):461-85.

Sharpe, J. A.

1992 Witchcraft in seventeenth-century Yorkshire : accusations and counter measures, York.

St. Clair, S.

1989 The step on the stair : paranormal happenings in Ireland. Glendale, Dublin.

Stuart, C. and P. T. J. Murgan

1976 Religion and Magic in Elizabethan Wales : Robert Holland's Dialogue on Witchcraft. Journal of Ecclesiastical History 27:31-46.

Thomas, K. V. S.

1970 The Relevance of Social Anthropology to the Historical Study of English Witchcraft. In Witchcraft Confessions and Accusations, ed. DOUGLAS, M. (New York, 1970), pp. 47-81.

1971 Religion and the decline of magic : studies in popular beliefs in sixteenth and seventeenth century England.

Ulrich, L.

1991 Good wives : image and reality in the lives of women in northern New England, 1650-1750. 1st Vintage Books ed. Vintage Books, New York, N.Y.

Unsworth, C. G.

1989 Witchcraft beliefs and criminal procedure in early modern England. In Watkin, Thomas Glyn, 1952- (ed.), Legal record and historical reality : Proceedings of the Eighth British Legal History Conference ( 1989), pp. 71-98.

Valletta, F.

2000 Witchcraft, magic and superstition in England, 1640-70. Ashgate, Aldershot.

Vickers, B.

1984 Occult and scientific mentalities in the Renaissance, Cambridge.

Weisman, R.

1984 Witchcraft, magic, and religion in 17th-century Massachusetts, Amherst (MA).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Bacon, A. M.

1896 Conjuring and Conjure-Doctors in the Southern United States. The Journal of American Folklore 9(33):143-147.

Brown, K.

2001 Interwoven Traditions: archaeology of the conjurer's cabins and the African American cemetery. Paper presented at the Reflections on the American Landscape.

Brown, K. L. and Doreen C. Cooper

1990 Structural Continuity in an African-American Slave and Tenant Community. Historical Archaeology 24(4):7-19.

DeCorse, C. R.

2001 An Archaeology of Elmina: Africans and Europeans on the Gold Coast, 1400-1900. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

Dixon, K.

2005 Boomtown Saloons: Archaeology and History in Virginia City, Nevada. University of Nevada Press, Reno.

Fennell, C.

2000 Conjuring Boundaries: Inferring Past Identities from Religious Artifacts. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 4(4):281-313.

2001 Crossroads & Cosmologies: Diasporas and Ethnogenesis in the New World. University Press of Florida, Gainsville.

Klingelhofer, E.

1987 Aspects of Afro-American Material Culture: Artifacts from the Slave Quarters at Garrison Plantation, Maryland. Historical Archaeology 21(2):112-119.

Leone, M. P. and Gladys-Marie Fry

1999 Conjuring in the Big House: An Interpretation of African American Belief Systems Based on the Uses of Archaeology and Folklore Sources. Journal of American Folklore 112(445):272-403.

Samford, P.

1996 The Archaeology of African-American Slavery and Material Culture. The William and Mary Quarterly 53(1):87-114.

Steiner, R.

1901 Observations on the Practice of Conjuring in Georgia. Journal of American Folklore 14(54):173-180.

Stine, L. F., Melanie A. Cabak, and Mark D. Groover

1996 Blue Beads as African-American Culture Symbols. Historical Archaeology 30(3):49-75.

Whitten Jr., N. E.

1962 Contemporary Patterns of Malign Occultism among Negroes in North Carolina. Journal of American Folklore 75(298):311-325.

Wilke, L. A.

1997 Secret and Sacred: Contextualizing the Artifacts of African-American Magic and Religion. Historical Archaeology 31(4):81-106.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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