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Witch Hunts A Graphic History of the Burning Times Written by ROCKY WOOD and LISA MORTON Illustrated by GREG CHAPMAN

McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Jefferson, North Carolina, and London

ALSO OF INTEREST AND FROM MCFARLAND The Halloween Encyclopedia, 2d ed., by Lisa Morton (2011) Stephen King: A Literary Companion, by Rocky Wood (2011) Horrors: Great Stories of Fear and Their Creators, by Rocky Wood; Illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne (2010) Savage Detours: The Life and Work of Ann Savage, by Lisa Morton and Kent Adamson (2010) The Cinema of Tsui Hark, by Lisa Morton (2001; paperback 2009) A Hallowe’en Anthology: Literary and Historical Writings Over the Centuries, by Lisa Morton (2008)

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©2012 Rocky Wood, Lisa Morton and Greg Chapman. All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording , or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Cover illustration Greg Chapman Manufactured in the United States of America

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To the members of the Horror writing community, who help keep readers entertained, and sane.— Rocky Wood To all the victims of the witchcraft craze.— Greg Chapman To the victims of witch hunts both past and present.— Lisa Morton

Table of Contents I. Before the Trials

1

II. The Trials Begin

9

III. The First Witch Hunter

17

IV. The Contagion Spreads

24

V. Joan of Arc

31

VI. The Trials in Arras

41

VII. The Hammer of Witches

47

VIII. Witchcraft and the Reformation IX. The Trials in Würzburg

80

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X. King James and the North Berwick Trials

97

XI. Matthew Hopkins, Witchfinder General

126

XII. The Salem Witch Trials XIII. The Frenzy Fades Bibliography

vi

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Bibliography Barstow, Anne Llewellyn. Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1994. Boyer, Paul S., and Stephen Nissenbaum. Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1974. James, and Robert Waldegrave. Daemonologie: In Forme of a Dialogue : Diuided into Three Bookes. Edinburgh: Printed by Robert Walde-graue, Printer to the Kings Majestie, 1597. Kors, Alan C., and Edward Peters. Witchcraft in Europe, 400 –1700: A Documentary History. Philadelphia, Pa: University of Philadelphia Press, 2001. Kramer, Heinrich, and Jacob Sprenger. Malleus Malleficarum. 1486. Levack, Brian P. The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe. Harlow: Pearson/Longman, 2006.

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