Portal:Witchcraft

Witchcraft

Folklore

• Malleus Maleficarum (“Hammer of the Witches”), by Heinrich Kramer (1486)
  • A translation into the English (1928), by Montague Summers (external scan)
• The Examination and Confession of certain Witches at Chelmsford in the County of Essex (1556)
• The Superstitions of Witchcraft, by Howard Williams (1865) (external scan)
• "Plants in Witchcraft" in Popular Science Monthly, 34 (April 1889).
• Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, by Charles Godfrey Leland (1899)
• “Child-Sacrifice among European Witches,” in Man, 18, by Margaret Alice Murray (Apr. 1918)
• Witchcraft in North Carolina, by Tom Peete Cross (1919) (external scan)
• The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, by Margaret Alice Murray (1921)

History

• A Brief History of Witchcraft: With Especial Reference to the Witches of Northamptonshire (1866)

Modern Wicca

• Witchcraft Today, by Gerald Gardner (1954)
• The Wiccan Rede
• The Charge of the Goddess
• The Gardnerian Book of Shadows (external scan)

Legislation

• Witchcraft Act 1735 (United Kingdom)
• Witchcraft Suppression Act, 1957 (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, by Henry Rider Haggard (1884)
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by Lyman Frank Baum (1900)
• Dreams in the Witch-House, by Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1933)
• A Witch Shall Be Born, by Robert Ervin Howard (1934)
• Witch from Hell's Kitchen, by Robert Ervin Howard (1952)

Verse

• “The Witch in the Graveyard,” by Clark Ashton Smith (1922)
• “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
• Portal:Demonology