Alison Rowlands is Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of Essex

• AcknowledgementsMapIntroduction1. ‘An honourable man should not talk about that which he cannot prove’: slander and speech about witchcraft2. The devil’s power to delude: elite beliefs about witchcraft and magic3. ‘One cannot … hope to obtain the slightest certainty from him’: the first child-witch in Rothenburg, 15874. ‘When will the burning start here?’: the Catholic challenge during the Thirty Years’ War5. Posion, seduction and magical theft: gender and contemporary fantasies of witchcraft6. ‘God will punish both poor and rich’: the idioms and risks of defiance in the trial of Margaretha Horn, 1652ConclusionAppendix: Trials for witchcraft in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, 1549-1709BibliographyIndex

Alison Rowlands is Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of Essex

• AcknowledgementsMapIntroduction1. ‘An honourable man should not talk about that which he cannot prove’: slander and speech about witchcraft2. The devil’s power to delude: elite beliefs about witchcraft and magic3. ‘One cannot … hope to obtain the slightest certainty from him’: the first child-witch in Rothenburg, 15874. ‘When will the burning start here?’: the Catholic challenge during the Thirty Years’ War5. Posion, seduction and magical theft: gender and contemporary fantasies of witchcraft6. ‘God will punish both poor and rich’: the idioms and risks of defiance in the trial of Margaretha Horn, 1652ConclusionAppendix: Trials for witchcraft in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, 1549-1709BibliographyIndex

Alison Rowlands is Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of Essex

• AcknowledgementsMapIntroduction1. ‘An honourable man should not talk about that which he cannot prove’: slander and speech about witchcraft2. The devil’s power to delude: elite beliefs about witchcraft and magic3. ‘One cannot … hope to obtain the slightest certainty from him’: the first child-witch in Rothenburg, 15874. ‘When will the burning start here?’: the Catholic challenge during the Thirty Years’ War5. Posion, seduction and magical theft: gender and contemporary fantasies of witchcraft6. ‘God will punish both poor and rich’: the idioms and risks of defiance in the trial of Margaretha Horn, 1652ConclusionAppendix: Trials for witchcraft in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, 1549-1709BibliographyIndex