The History of Witchcraft

034 - The Witchfinder General


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This episode primarily makes use of the following texts:

-  Gaskill, Malcolm, Witchfinders: A Seventeenth Century English Tragedy, (2005)

-  Levack, Brian, ‘State-Building and Witch-Hunting’, in Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader, 2002

-  Purkiss, DIane, The English Civil War: A People's History, (2007)

-  Jackson, Louise, ‘Witches, Wives and Mothers: Witchcraft Persecution and Women’s Confessions in Seventeenth-Century England’, in Oldridge, Darren (ed.), The Witchcraft Reader, 2002

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The History of WitchcraftBy Samuel Hume