Portal:Witchcraft

Class B - Philosophy, Psychology and Religion
Subclass L - Religion

Witchcraft

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This category lists works related to Witchcraft, as well as its more modern incarnation of Wiccan followers.

Contents

Folklore

• Malleus Maleficarum ("Hammer of the Witches"), 1486 by Heinrich Kramer
• The Superstitions of Witchcraft, 1865 by Howard Williams (External text)
• "Plants in Witchcraft" in Popular Science Monthly, 34 (April 1889).
• Witchcraft in North Carolina, 1919 by Tom Peete Cross (external scan)
• The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, 1921 by Margaret Alice Murray
• Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, 1899 by Charles Godfrey Leland
• "Child-Sacrifice among European Witches" by Margaret Alice Murray in Man, Vol. 18, April 1918

Modern Wicca

• Witchcraft Today, 1954 by Gerald Gardner
• Gerald Gardner: Witch, 1960 by Jack L. Bracelin
• The Wiccan Rede
• The Charge of the Goddess
• The Gardnerian Book of Shadows

Legislation

• Witchcraft Act 1735 by the Parliament of the United Kingdom
• Witchcraft Suppression Act, 1957 by the Parliament of South Africa

Court cases

• Dettmer v. Landon, 1985 US District Court case that ruled Wicca was a genuine religion, but denied an inmate access to "objects of worship" under a First Amendment appeal
  • Appeal of Dettmer v. Landon, 1986

Fiction

• The Witch's Head, 1884 by Henry Rider Haggard
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 1900 by Lyman Frank Baum
• Dreams in the Witch-House, 1933 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
• A Witch Shall Be Born, 1934 by Robert Ervin Howard
• Witch from Hell's Kitchen, 1952 by Robert Ervin Howard

Verse

• The Witch in the Graveyard, 1922 by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Witch of Wenham, by John Greenleaf Whittier
• Witchcraft was hung, in History,, by Emily Dickinson
• Witchcraft has not a Pedigree, by Emily Dickinson

Reference works

• Witchcraft, as it appeared in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia

See also

• Portal:Religion
• Portal:Folklore