Directory of Witch Hunts Resources

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Covers witch crazes in history as well as in the present day. This includes sites about the burning times, witch trials and outbreaks of satanic panic.

Subcategories

• Primary Sources
• Salem, Massachusetts, Witch Trials
• West Memphis Three

Resources in This Category

• Groton In The Witchcraft Times

  http://history.hanover.edu/texts/groton/grointro.html
  Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society Boston, 1883, 1-29, 3rd series.

• Helping 'Witches' Who Live in Exile

  http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0622/p13s01-lign.html
  Christian Science Monitor article about the situation of widows in Ghana who are branded as witches and forced to live in isolation.

• Historical Witches and Witchtrials in North America

  http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/witchtrial/na.html
  Compiled by I. Marc Carlson.

• Pendle Witch Trial of 1612

  http://www.pendlewitches.co.uk/
  This UK site has descriptions and trial details of the famous Pendle witches.

• Salem Witchcraft Trials, 1692

  http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm
  Legal procedures and profiles of accused witches are examined using documents, maps and articles.

• The Lindheim Witch Trials

  http://www.phmarketing.se/Lindheim.htm
  The story, victims, and movie of the trials of 1664.

• The Malleus Maleficarum

  http://www.malleusmaleficarum.org/
  Unabridged online republication of the 1928 edition. Introduction to the 1948 edition is also included. Translation, notes, and two introductions by Montague Summers.

• The Witch Hunts

  http://history.hanover.edu/link-lists/wh.html
  An archive of texts and documents.

• The Witch Trials

  http://www.witchcraftandwitches.com/trials.html
  Events and outcomes of witch trials in Europe during the 16th and 17th Centuries.

• Witch Hunts

  http://www.paganlibrary.com/witch_hunting/index.php
  A collection of articles and some links.

• Witch Hunts (A.D. 1400-1800)

  http://departments.kings.edu/womens_history/witch/
  Articles and essays about Europeans' heightened concern with the phenomenon of witchcraft during the early modern era, including materials about specific witch-hunt episodes in Europe and America.

• Witchcraft, Magic and Witch Trials in Finland

  http://www15.uta.fi/yky/arkisto/historia/noitanetti/
  A historical archive of witchhunt and witchcraft in Finland, based on studies by Ph.D. Antero Heikkinen, lawyer and historically oriented lawyer and criminologist Timo Kervinen, and Ph.D Marko Nenonen.

• Witches in the Bible and in the Talmud

  http://faculty.biu.ac.il/~barilm/witches.html
  Essay examining reports of witches in the Jewish Bible, in the context of the role of women and in relation to the subsequent history of witch hunts in Christian Europe in the Middle Ages.

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