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It has been said that the subject of witchcraft has hardly received that place which it deserves in the history of opinions. Yet European history is replete with accounts of privy councillors anxious about their sovereign and thrifty peasants worrying over their crops, clergymen alert to detect the Devil in their own parishes, medical quacks eager to profit by the fear of evil women, justices of the peace zealous to beat down the works of Satan--all classes, indeed--believed more or less sincerely in the dangerous powers of human creatures who had surrendered themselves to the Evil One. Here then is the first important and fully accurate and complete record of witchcraft in history. It may be said, in fact, that few subjects have gathered about themselves so large concretions of misinformation as English witchcraft. This is largely, of course, because so little attention has been given to it by serious students of history. This is a complete unabridged reissue of a historical public domain classic and as such the index may or may not be in full calibration with the text.

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