| PAGE |
| Preface | [v] |
| CHAPTER I. |
| The Beginnings of English Witchcraft | [1] |
| CHAPTER II. |
| Witchcraft under Elizabeth | [33] |
| CHAPTER III. |
| Reginald Scot | [57] |
| CHAPTER IV. |
| The Exorcists | [73] |
| CHAPTER V. |
| James I and Witchcraft | [93] |
| CHAPTER VI. |
| Notable Jacobean Cases | [120] |
| CHAPTER VII. |
| The Lancashire Witches and Charles I | [146] |
| CHAPTER VIII. |
| Matthew Hopkins | [164] |
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| CHAPTER IX. |
| Witchcraft during the Commonwealth and Protectorate | [206] |
| CHAPTER X. |
| The Literature of Witchcraft from 1603 to 1660 | [227] |
| CHAPTER XI. |
| Witchcraft under Charles II and James II | [254] |
| CHAPTER XII. |
| Glanvill and Webster and the Literary War over Witchcraft, 1660-1688 | [284] |
| CHAPTER XIII. |
| The Final Decline | [313] |
| CHAPTER XIV. |
| The Close of the Literary Controversy | [334] |
| Appendices | [345] |
| A. Pamphlet Literature | [345] |
| B. List of Persons Sentenced to Death for Witchcraft during the Reign of James I | [383] |
| C. List of Cases of Witchcraft, 1558-1717, with References to Sources and Literature | [384] |
| Index | [421] |