The fifteenth to eighteenth centuries was a period of witchcraft prosecutions throughout Europe and modern scholars have now devoted a huge amount of research t

In the ancient Near East, the art of influencing the natural course of events by means of spells and other ritual forms was universal. The social and political

This volume, chronologically the first in the six-volume series, deals with the societies of the ancient Near East.

Men – as accused witches, witch-hunters, werewolves and the demonically possessed – are the focus of analysis in this collection of essays by leading schola

Covers the rise of "white magic" & Christian persecution of sorcery.