Cultures of witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the present : essays in honour of Willem de Blécourt / edited by Jonathan Barry, Owen Davies, Cornelie Usborne, editors.

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

xxiv, 283 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contested knowledge : a historical anthropologist's approach to European witchcraft / Willem de Blécourt -- Witches and devil's magic in Austrian demonological legends / Christa Agnes Tuczay -- Hanna Dyâb's witch and the great witch shift / Ruth B. Bottigheimer -- The Mirror of the witches (1600) : a German baroque tragedy in context / Rita Voltmer -- Unraveling the myth and histories of the weighing test at Oudewater : the case of Leentje Willems / Machteld Löwensteyn -- The North Sea as a crossroads of witchcraft beliefs : the limited importance of political boundaries / Hans de Waardt -- "Kind in words and deeds, but false in their hearts" : fear of evil conspiracy in late-sixteenth-century Denmark / Louise Nyholm Kallestrup -- "Ein gefehrlich Ding, darin leichtlich zuviel geschiecht" (a dangerous thing in which too much happens easily) : the end of village witch trials in the Saar region / Eva Labouvie -- News from the invisible world : the publishing history of tales of the supernatural c.1660-1832 / Jonathan Barry -- Researching reverse witch trials in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England / Owen Davies -- The catechism of witch lore in twentieth-century Denmark / Gustav Henningsen -- Magic and counter-magic in twenty-first-century Bosnia / Mirjam Mencej.