| PAGE | Preface | v | CHAPTER I. | The Beginnings of English Witchcraft | 1 | CHAPTER II. | Witchcraft under Elizabeth | 33 | CHAPTER III. | Reginald Scot | 57 | CHAPTER IV. | The Exorcists | 73 | CHAPTER V. | James I and Witchcraft | 93 | CHAPTER VI. | Notable Jacobean Cases | 120 | CHAPTER VII. | The Lancashire Witches and Charles I | 146 | CHAPTER VIII. | Matthew Hopkins | 164 | | CHAPTER IX. | Witchcraft during the Commonwealth and Protectorate | 206 | CHAPTER X. | The Literature of Witchcraft from 1603 to 1660 | 227 | CHAPTER XI. | Witchcraft under Charles II and James II | 254 | CHAPTER XII. | Glanvill and Webster and the Literary War over Witchcraft, 1660-1688 | 284 | CHAPTER XIII. | The Final Decline | 313 | CHAPTER XIV. | The Close of the Literary Controversy | 334 | Appendices | 345 | A. Pamphlet Literature | 345 | B. List of Persons Sentenced to Death for Witchcraft during the Reign of James I | 383 | C. List of Cases of Witchcraft, 1558-1717, with References to Sources and Literature | 384 | Index | 421 |
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