A thoroughly revised, greatly expanded edition of the most important documentary history of European witchcraft ever published. Preface to the Second Edition ix List of Illustrations xi List of Abbreviations xiii Introduction: The Problem of European Witchcraft 1(40) I Christianizing the Traditions 41(17) Augustine: On Christian Teaching 43(4) Caesarius of Arles: Sermon 54 47(3) Isidore of Seville, Etymologies 50(4) Halitgar of Cambrai: The ``Roman'' Penitential 54(4) II Sorcery in Christendom 58(29) Regino of Prum: A Warning to Bishops 60(3) Burchard of Worms: The Corrector, sive Medicus 63(4) Hugh of St. Victor: The Didascalicon 67(3) William of Malmesbury: The Sorceress of Berkeley 70(2) The Decretum 72(5) Master Gratian John of Salisbury: The Policraticus 77(1) Ralph of Coggeshall: The Heretics of Rheims 78(3) The Life of St. Justina 81(6) Jacobus de Voragine III Thomas Aquinas on Sorcery and the Nature of Evil 87(25) From the Summa contra gentiles 90(6) From the Summa theologiae 96(7) From Quodlibet XI 103(1) From the Commentary on the Four Books of Sentences 104(1) The Mirror of True Penitence 105(7) Jacopo Passavanti IV Popes, Theologians, Preachers, Lawyers, and Judges 112(37) Vox in Rama 114(2) Pope Gregory IX Sorcery and the Inquisitors 116(2) Pope Alexander IV William, Cardinal of Santa Sabina: Sorcery and the Inquisitors 118(1) Sorcery and the Inquisitors 119(1) Pope John XXII The Directorium inquisitorum 120(7) Nicolau Eymeric The Theology Faculty of the University of Paris Condemns Sorcery 127(6) Bernardino of Siena Preaches Against Women Sorcerers 133(16) V The Sect of Diabolical Witches 149(27) Pope Alexander V to Pontus Fougeyron on New Sects 152(1) Two Letters on the Pressing Danger 153(2) Pope Eugenius IV The Formicarius 155(4) Johannes Nider The Errores Gazariorum 159(4) Ut magorum et maleficiorum errores 163(3) Claude Tholosan The Defender of Ladies 166(4) Martin Le Franc A Scourge for Heretical Witches 170(2) Nicholas Jacquier Jehan de la Case Is Pardoned for Killing a Witch-Finder 172(4) VI The Hammer of Witches 176(54) Summis desiderantes affectibus 177(3) Pope Innocent VIII The Malleus Maleficarum 180(49) Heinrich Kramer Jacob Sprenger The Pursuit of Witches in Lombardy 229(1) Pope Alexander VI VII Humanists, Sorcerers, Preachers, and Popes 230(29) A Terrible Case of Sorcery in Orleans 231(5) Desiderius Erasmus Die Emeis 236(3) Johann Geiler von Kayserberg Gainfrancesco Pico della Mirandola: Strix 239(6) On Diabolical Witchcraft 245(14) Pope Hadrian VI VIII The Problem of Sorcery and Witchcraft in the Age of the Reformation 259(71) The Two Kinds of Sorcery and the Reformation 261(4) Martin Luther Witchcraft and the Reformation 265(5) John Calvin De veneficiis 270(3) Lambert Daneau Tratado muy sotil y bien fundado 273(7) Martin de Castanega De praestigiis daemonum 280(10) Johann Weyer On the Demon-Mania of Witches 290(12) Jean Bodin The Confessions of the Chelmsford Witches 302(6) The Prosecutions at Trier 308(10) The Prosecutions in Scotland 318(4) Demonolatry 322(8) Nicholas Remy IX Witchcraft Prosecutions in the Seventeenth Century 330(62) Disquisitiones magicarum 331(3) Martin Del Rio The Masque of Queens 334(11) Ben Jonson The Trial of Marie Cornu 345(3) The Prosecutions at Bamberg 348(5) The Prosecutions at Wurzburg 353(1) The Prosecutions at Bonn 354(1) The Devils of Loudun 355(4) The Trial of Suzanne Gaudry 359(8) ``A Discourse on Witches'' 367(3) Cotton Mather Sadducismus Triumphatus 370(22) Joseph Glanvill X Belief, Skepticism, Doubt, and Disbelief in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries 392(57) Discoverie of Witchcraft 394(8) Reginald Scot ``Concerning Cripples'' 402(4) Michel de Montaigne The Political Works 406(1) Benedict de Spinoza A Spanish Inquisitor on Witchcraft and Evidence 407(12) Alonso de Salazar Frias Leviathan 419(6) Thomas Hobbes Cautio criminalis 425(4) Friedrich Spee The Enchanted World 429(7) Balthasar Bekker The Recantation of the Salem Village Jurors 436(2) Answer to the Questions of a Provincial 438(6) Pierre Bayle Witchcraft and the Law 444(5) Christian Thomasius Acknowledgments 449