Portal:Witchcraft
This category lists works related to Witchcraft, as well as its more modern incarnation of Wiccan followers.
Folklore
[edit]- Malleus Maleficarum (“Hammer of the Witches”), by Heinrich Kramer (1486)
- A translation into the English (1928), by Montague Summers IA
- The Examination and Confession of certain Witches at Chelmsford in the County of Essex (1556)
- The Superstitions of Witchcraft, by Howard Williams (1865) IA
- "Plants in Witchcraft" in Popular Science Monthly, 34 (April 1889).
- Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, by Charles Godfrey Leland (1899)
- “Child-Sacrifice among European Witches,” in Man, 18, by Margaret Alice Murray (Apr. 1918)
- Witchcraft in North Carolina, by Tom Peete Cross (1919) IA
- The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, by Margaret Alice Murray (1921)
History
[edit]Modern Wicca
[edit]- Witchcraft Today, by Gerald Gardner (1954)
- The Wiccan Rede
- The Charge of the Goddess
- The Gardnerian Book of Shadows (external scan)
Legislation
[edit]- Witchcraft Act 1735 (United Kingdom)
- Witchcraft Suppression Act, 1957 (South Africa)
Court cases
[edit]- Dettmer v. Landon, 1985 US District Court case that ruled Wicca was a genuine religion, but denied an inmate access to "objects of worship" under a First Amendment appeal
Fiction
[edit]- The Witch's Head, by Henry Rider Haggard (1884)
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by Lyman Frank Baum (1900)
- Dreams in the Witch-House, by Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1933)
- A Witch Shall Be Born, by Robert Ervin Howard (1934)
- Witch from Hell's Kitchen, by Robert Ervin Howard (1952)
Verse
[edit]- “The Witch in the Graveyard,” by Clark Ashton Smith (1922)
- “The Witch of Wenham,” by John Greenleaf Whittier
- “Witchcraft was hung, in History,” by Emily Dickinson
- “Witchcraft has not a Pedigree,” by Emily Dickinson
Reference works
[edit]- An Encyclopædia of Occultism, by Lewis Spence (1920) (transcription project)
- Witchcraft, as it appeared in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia