Recommended Websites


European Witchcraft – Documents and Bibliographies On-Line European Witchcraft – Other Links
New England Witchcraft  - Documents and Bibliographies On-Line New England Witchcraft – Other sites

European Witchcraft – Documents and Bibliographies On-Line

Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads
To access several key witchcraft tracts at the Bodleain Library, Oxford.

The Discoverie of Witchcraft
(1584) by Reginald Scot:  excerpts at Rutgers University

Internet Medieval Sourcebook sources on Witchcraft

Malleus Maleficarum On Line
Unabridged online republication of the 1928 edition, including translation notes, and two introductions by Montague Summers.

Rare Books Online: Witchcraft in Europe and America
A substantial part of Conrell Unviersity’s famous witchcraft collection available on-line. A subscription fee is charged.

Thomas Middleton, The Witch  (ca. 1613)
An interesting play, written in the wake of Dr. Faustus and MacBeth

Witchcraft Bibliography Project
This is the definitive bibiliographic source for the history of witchcraft
 
 

European Witchcraft – Other Links

Best Witches:
Good on-line contemporary images of the Devil and witchcraft at Rutgers University.

Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
At the University of Toronto for background and links.

Furness Shakespeare Library at the University of Pennsylvania:
For Shakespeare and English Renaissance e-texts

Public Execution in Early Modern England
Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image at the University of Pennsylvania:  two sixteenth-century witchcraft tracts in Latin

Tyburn Tree:
Public Execution in Early Modern England

The Witching Hours
A site geared for a popular audience, with many useful links

New England Witchcraft  - Documents and Bibliographies On-Line

1692 Salem Witchcraft Papers
Full text, indexed, on-line from the Danvers Archival Center and UVA

The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School - Pre 18th Century Documents
Includes a number of seventeenth-century Massachusetts documents

Books On Line
 A source for many early books in full-text
A briefe account of a strange & unusuall Providence of God befallen to Elizabeth Knap of Groton by Samuel Willard
A witchcraft case in Groton, Massachusetts, from Hanover College

Burr’s Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706
Full text on-line from the Danvers Archival Center and UVA

Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits by Increase Mather (1693)
Full text, on-line from the Danvers Archival Center and UVA

Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcraft and Possessions by Cotton Mather (1689)
An important pre-1692 text on witchcraft, from the UMKC site

Salem, As Observed by Samuel Drake in 1875 and 1910.
An early historian of witchcraft visits Salem

The Salem Witchcraft Papers
Danvers Archival Center’s Site, done in conjunction with The University of Virginia’s Electronic Text Center. This site is “one stop shopping” for the events of 1692. It includes whole text documents of Salem and other New England cases, maps of Salem Village then and now, historical sites in Danvers, and other information on the trials

The Salem Witchcraft Trials
A source for many witchcraft documents. The site belongs to Douglas Linder at UMKC School of Law.

Some Miscellany Observations On Our Present Debates In a Dialogue Between S. & B. by Samuel Willard (1692)
Full text, on-line from the Danvers Archival Center and UVA
 
 

New England Witchcraft – Other sites

Seventeenth-Century Colonial New England, with Special Emphasis on the Salem Trials
Margo Burn’s website is one of the most inclusive ones out there for witchcraft in early New England. It includes many materials on the Crucible, as well as information designed for students in grades K-8

Witch City
A site for the video on how the events of 1692 are portrayed in Salem today

Essex County registry of Deeds
The first 20 books of the Essex Deeds are available here on line. Unfortunately, the indexes are not on-line, but they are available at the court house. Also note that the "pages" referred to on-line are numbered pages, while the index at the court house refers to "folios" (consisting of one piece of paper, front and back) So the on-line page numbers are roughly double the number of the folio given in the index.

Family Search
On-Line Searching for genealogical data on people world-wide, from the extensive collections of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day saints. An incredible resource.

Public Record office catalog
The catalog of the public record office, the national archives of great britain, contains references to 8 million documents on-line.

The Plymouth Colony Archive
James Deetz's web site at the University of Viriginia, with many sources and links for seventeenth-century Plymouth Colony.

Plimoth Plantation
A good web site for seventeenth-century Massachusetts

The Elizabeth & Mary
Web page for the excavations of a 1690 Massachusetts warship, excavated by parks Canada, as featured in the August 2000 issue of National Geographic. A great reference for material culture of late seventeenth century.

Index to Native Americans in the Massachusetts Archives
Very thorough!

Bookfinder.com
If you really want to buy that out of print book, this is the place to find it at the lowest price.

Midwive's tale Web site
Slightly later in time than our studies, but one of the finest historical web sites, showing you what is possible. A great tool for using with students.

LInks to the Past
The National Park Service web site, with links to many parks, and educational materials


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