Marion Gibson is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter, UK. Her publications include Reading Witchcraft (Routledge, 1999), Possession, Puritanism and Print (Pickering and Chatto, 2006) and Witchcraft Myths in American Culture (Routledge, 2007).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction 1. Witchcraft in the CourtsAn Act against Conjurations, Witchcrafts, Sorcery and Enchantments 1541/2An Act against Conjurations, Enchantments and Witchcrafts 1563An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft and dealing with evil and wicked Spirits 1604The Witchcraft Act 1735Information and Examination: Suffolk 1645Printed Information and Examination: Devon 1682Indictment: Essex 15792. Witchcraft in Elizabethan and Jacobean EnglandThe examination of John Walsh or Welshe, 1566W.W., A true and just Recorde (London, 1582)A Brief abstract of the Arraignment of nine Witches at Northampton, 16123. English DemonologiesGeorge Gifford, A Dialogue concerning Witches and Witchcraftes (London, 1593)Reginold Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft (London, 1584)John Cotta, The Triall of Witch-craft (London, 1616)4. Stage and Page: Witches in LiteratureThomas Middleton, The Witch (c.1613-15)William Shakespeare, Macbeth (c. 1606)John Ford, Thomas Dekker and William Rowley, The Witch of Edmonton (1621)Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (Books 1-3, 1590)Ben Jonson, The Masque of Queenes (1609)Miles Gale (?), 'Witchcraft ye practice of deluded minds'5. Possession: The Devil and the WitchJesse Bee and others, The most Wonderful and True Storie, of a certain Witch named Alse Gooderige (London, 1597)Edward Fairfax, 'A Discourse of witchcraft'  (1621-22)6. Learned Men and MagicChristopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus ( A text, 1604)Anon, The Merry Devil of Edmonton (c.1604)7. Magic and Money: A Trickster Thomas Heywood, The Wise Woman of Hogsdon (c.1604)Ben Jonson, The Alchemist (1610)8. Witchcraft in AmericaExamination of Bridget BishopIndictment of Bridget Bishop for afflicting Mercy LewisSusannah Sheldon, evidence against Bridget Bishop and othersCotton Mather, Wonders of the Invisible World (Boston and London, 1693)Increase Mather, Cases of Conscience (Boston, 1693)John Hale, A Modest Enquiry Into the Nature of Witchcraft (Boston, 1702)9. Decline and Change: Restoration to Eighteenth CenturyJoseph Glanvill, Saducismus Triumphatus (London, 1681)Francis Hutchison, An Historical Essay Concerning Witchcraft (London, 1718)Daniel Defoe, A System of Magick, or a History of the Black Art (London, 1727)Select Bibliography and Further Reading

Marion Gibson is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter, UK. Her publications include Reading Witchcraft (Routledge, 1999), Possession, Puritanism and Print (Pickering and Chatto, 2006) and Witchcraft Myths in American Culture (Routledge, 2007).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction 1. Witchcraft in the CourtsAn Act against Conjurations, Witchcrafts, Sorcery and Enchantments 1541/2An Act against Conjurations, Enchantments and Witchcrafts 1563An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft and dealing with evil and wicked Spirits 1604The Witchcraft Act 1735Information and Examination: Suffolk 1645Printed Information and Examination: Devon 1682Indictment: Essex 15792. Witchcraft in Elizabethan and Jacobean EnglandThe examination of John Walsh or Welshe, 1566W.W., A true and just Recorde (London, 1582)A Brief abstract of the Arraignment of nine Witches at Northampton, 16123. English DemonologiesGeorge Gifford, A Dialogue concerning Witches and Witchcraftes (London, 1593)Reginold Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft (London, 1584)John Cotta, The Triall of Witch-craft (London, 1616)4. Stage and Page: Witches in LiteratureThomas Middleton, The Witch (c.1613-15)William Shakespeare, Macbeth (c. 1606)John Ford, Thomas Dekker and William Rowley, The Witch of Edmonton (1621)Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (Books 1-3, 1590)Ben Jonson, The Masque of Queenes (1609)Miles Gale (?), 'Witchcraft ye practice of deluded minds'5. Possession: The Devil and the WitchJesse Bee and others, The most Wonderful and True Storie, of a certain Witch named Alse Gooderige (London, 1597)Edward Fairfax, 'A Discourse of witchcraft'  (1621-22)6. Learned Men and MagicChristopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus ( A text, 1604)Anon, The Merry Devil of Edmonton (c.1604)7. Magic and Money: A Trickster Thomas Heywood, The Wise Woman of Hogsdon (c.1604)Ben Jonson, The Alchemist (1610)8. Witchcraft in AmericaExamination of Bridget BishopIndictment of Bridget Bishop for afflicting Mercy LewisSusannah Sheldon, evidence against Bridget Bishop and othersCotton Mather, Wonders of the Invisible World (Boston and London, 1693)Increase Mather, Cases of Conscience (Boston, 1693)John Hale, A Modest Enquiry Into the Nature of Witchcraft (Boston, 1702)9. Decline and Change: Restoration to Eighteenth CenturyJoseph Glanvill, Saducismus Triumphatus (London, 1681)Francis Hutchison, An Historical Essay Concerning Witchcraft (London, 1718)Daniel Defoe, A System of Magick, or a History of the Black Art (London, 1727)Select Bibliography and Further Reading

Marion Gibson is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter, UK. Her publications include Reading Witchcraft (Routledge, 1999), Possession, Puritanism and Print (Pickering and Chatto, 2006) and Witchcraft Myths in American Culture (Routledge, 2007).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction 1. Witchcraft in the CourtsAn Act against Conjurations, Witchcrafts, Sorcery and Enchantments 1541/2An Act against Conjurations, Enchantments and Witchcrafts 1563An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft and dealing with evil and wicked Spirits 1604The Witchcraft Act 1735Information and Examination: Suffolk 1645Printed Information and Examination: Devon 1682Indictment: Essex 15792. Witchcraft in Elizabethan and Jacobean EnglandThe examination of John Walsh or Welshe, 1566W.W., A true and just Recorde (London, 1582)A Brief abstract of the Arraignment of nine Witches at Northampton, 16123. English DemonologiesGeorge Gifford, A Dialogue concerning Witches and Witchcraftes (London, 1593)Reginold Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft (London, 1584)John Cotta, The Triall of Witch-craft (London, 1616)4. Stage and Page: Witches in LiteratureThomas Middleton, The Witch (c.1613-15)William Shakespeare, Macbeth (c. 1606)John Ford, Thomas Dekker and William Rowley, The Witch of Edmonton (1621)Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (Books 1-3, 1590)Ben Jonson, The Masque of Queenes (1609)Miles Gale (?), 'Witchcraft ye practice of deluded minds'5. Possession: The Devil and the WitchJesse Bee and others, The most Wonderful and True Storie, of a certain Witch named Alse Gooderige (London, 1597)Edward Fairfax, 'A Discourse of witchcraft'  (1621-22)6. Learned Men and MagicChristopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus ( A text, 1604)Anon, The Merry Devil of Edmonton (c.1604)7. Magic and Money: A Trickster Thomas Heywood, The Wise Woman of Hogsdon (c.1604)Ben Jonson, The Alchemist (1610)8. Witchcraft in AmericaExamination of Bridget BishopIndictment of Bridget Bishop for afflicting Mercy LewisSusannah Sheldon, evidence against Bridget Bishop and othersCotton Mather, Wonders of the Invisible World (Boston and London, 1693)Increase Mather, Cases of Conscience (Boston, 1693)John Hale, A Modest Enquiry Into the Nature of Witchcraft (Boston, 1702)9. Decline and Change: Restoration to Eighteenth CenturyJoseph Glanvill, Saducismus Triumphatus (London, 1681)Francis Hutchison, An Historical Essay Concerning Witchcraft (London, 1718)Daniel Defoe, A System of Magick, or a History of the Black Art (London, 1727)Select Bibliography and Further Reading