Witchcraft (Bookshelf)

Below is a selection of non-fiction books on the history of witchcraft, including contemporary accounts of witchcraft trials.

• The Discovery of Witches , by Matthew Hopkins (contemporary account, 1647)
• House of John Procter, Witchcraft Martyr, 1692 , by William P. Upham
• Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft , by Sir Walter Scott
• Maria Schweidler die Bernsteinhexe , by Wilhelm Meinhold, (English, translated from the German by Lady Lucie Duff Gordon)
• Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds , by Charles Mackay (contains a chapter on "The Witch Mania")
• The Mysteries of All Nations , by James Grant (contains a chapter on "Laws against and Trials of Witches")
• Potts's Discovery of Witches , by Thomas Potts, ed. James Crossley (contemporary account, 1613)
• Salem Witchcraft, Vols. I & II , by Charles Wentworth Upham
• Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather. A Reply , by Charles Wentworth Upham
• The Superstitions of Witchcraft , by Howard Williams
• A Treatise of Witchcraft , by Alexander Roberts (contemporary account, 1616)
• Witchcraft and Devil Lore in the Channel Islands , by John Linwood Pitts
• The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) , by John M. Taylor
• The Witch-Cult in Western Europe , by Margaret Alice Murray
• House of John Procter, Witchcraft Martyr, 1692 , by William P. Upham
• A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 , by Wallace Notestein