The end of the eighteenth century saw the end of the witch trials everywhere. This volume charts the processes and reasons for the decriminalisation of witchcra

This volume, chronologically the first in the six-volume series, deals with the societies of the ancient Near East.

The fifteenth to eighteenth centuries was a period of witchcraft prosecutions throughout Europe and modern scholars have now devoted a huge amount of research t

Topics include the decline of the witchcraft trials and the role of witchcraft and magic in enlightenment, romantic, and liberal thought.

Topics include modern pagan witchcraft, Satanism, and the continued existence of traditional witchcraft.