This book represents the first systematic study of the role of the Devil in English witchcraft pamphlets for the entire period of state-sanctioned witchcraft pr

Broadside ballads-folio-sized publications containing verse, a tune indication, and woodcut imagery-related cautionary tales, current events, and simplified myt

Engaging with fiction and history-and reading both genres as texts permeated with early modern anxieties, desires, and apprehensions-this collection scrutinizes

The first comprehensive scholarly history of witchcraft in England in over eighty years.

For the people of early modern England, the dividing line between the natural and supernatural worlds was both negotiable and porous - particularly when it came