Tradition 03 of 35
Witchcraft and folk magic
Historical and contemporary witchcraft, Wicca, cunning craft, Hoodoo, Vodou, and related vernacular traditions.
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- Books
- 2,577
- Earliest
- 1191
- to 2026
- Read free
- 36%
- 917 with public full text
- With covers
- 49%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match2,361
- Metadata match156
- Query match54
- Source classification (retained through merging)6
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Key subjects
Top languages
- English1,375 · 53%
- German351 · 14%
- French216 · 8%
- Latin139 · 5%
- Spanish80 · 3%
Notable authors
All authors- Cotton Mather17 in this tradition45 books
- Joseph Glanvill17 in this tradition19 books
- J. K Rowling16 in this tradition20 books
- Jean Bodin15 in this tradition25 books
- Johann Weyer14 in this tradition25 books
- Christian Thomasius13 in this tradition20 books
- Christian Deetjen13 in this tradition17 books
- Balthasar Bekker12 in this tradition17 books
- Jakob Sprenger12 in this tradition13 books
- Walter Scott11 in this tradition52 books
- Montague Summers11 in this tradition19 books
- Reginald Scot11 in this tradition12 books
2,577 books
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The long lost friend
Johann Georg Hohman
1820
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Elizabethan demonology
Thomas Alfred Spalding
1880
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History of Witchcraft
Montague Summers, Richard Turnbull Clark
1926
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Irish witchcraft and demonology
St. John St. John Drelincourt Seymour, John Drelincourt Seymour
1913
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Letters on demonology and witchcraft
Walter Scott, Henry Morley, George Cruikshank, James Ballantyne and Co. bkp CU-BANC
1830
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Psychology as a natural science applied to the solution of occult psychic phenomena
Charles Godlove Raue, Harry Houdini Collection DLC, Harry Houdini Collection, Andrew Lang
1889
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The devil in Britain and America
John Ashton
1896
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Witch, warlock, and magician
W. H. Davenport Adams
1889
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Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds
Charles Mackay
1800
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La sorcière
Jules Michelet, John Davis Batchelder Collection DLC, Lionel Lionel James n 79077380 Trotter, Lionel Lionel James Trotter
1862French
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Malleus Maleficarum
Heinrich Institoris, Jakob Sprenger, Heinrich Kramer
1486Latin
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Aradia Or the Gospel of the Witches
Charles Godfrey Leland
1899
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A collection of rare and curious tracts on witchcraft and the second sight
David of Edinburgh Webster, David Webster, David. comp Webster
1820
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Saducismus triumphatus, or, Full and plain evidence concerning witches and apparitions
Joseph Glanvill, Henry More, Anthony Horneck, Freeman Collins, Samuel Lowndes, William Faithorne, James Collins
1681
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Witchcraft Narratives in Germany: Rothenburg, 1561-1652
Alison Rowlands
2003
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De la démonomanie des sorciers
Jean Bodin, Arnout Coninx, Jacques Du Puys
1580French
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A treatise of witchcraft
Alexander Roberts, Nicholas Okes
1616
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Gypsy sorcery and fortune telling
Charles Godfrey Leland, University of Leeds. Library
1891
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More wonders of the invisible world
Robert Calef, Joseph Calef
1700
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The folklore of China, and its affinities with that of the Aryan and Semitic races
Nicholas Belfield Dennys, By Nicholas Belfield Dennys, Nicholas Belfield. [from old catalog] Dennys
1876
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The popular superstitions and festive amusements of the Highlanders of Scotland
William Grant Stewart
1823
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Witch stories
Eliza Lynn Linton, Leona Bowman Carpenter Collection of English and American Literature. NcD, Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture. NcD
1861
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The witch-cult in Western Europe
Margaret Alice Murray, Margaret Murray
1921
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Hours with the ghosts
Henry Ridgely Evans, Harry Houdini Collection DLC, Harry Houdini Collection
1897