They Burned Women, Not Witches

Peg A. Lamphier, PhD, teaches American Women’s History at Mount San Antonio College. Lamphier has written over a dozen books ranging from monographs to biographies to novels. With Rosanne Welch she has edited Women in American History: A Social, Political and Cultural Encyclopedia (2016) and Technological Innovation in American History: An Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (2019). She lives in Manhattan Montana, where she also gardens, spins wool, and makes cheese.

• PrefaceChronology of Witch Hunts Chronology of Witchcraft Texts and LawsIntroduction: Why Witch Hunt History MattersPart One: The Framework of Witch Hunts1. A Witch, A Witch! The Language of Witch Hunts2. “Behind Every Witch is a Woman Wronged”: Gender and the Victims of Witch Hunts3. Here There Be Monsters: Witch Hunters and Their Critics4. In the Face of Pain There Are No Heroes: The Violence of Witch TrialsPart Two: Witch Hunts through History5. An Early Warning System: Witch Trials in Antiquity to 14006. The Mother of Witch Hunts: Germany 7. Three Weird Sisters: The Scottish Witch Trials, Danish Connection, and the Gaelic Exception8. More than Salem: Witch Hunts in Colonial Connecticut and Virginia9. Religion Matters: Slavic Witch Trials and Gender Exceptions10: Shapeshifters, Raven Mockers, and Brujas: Witch Hunts Among Indigenous Americans11. A Post-Colonial Paradox: Witch Hunts in Sub-Saharan and West Africa12. Witch Hunts in the Asia-Pacific: India, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia13. They’re Eating the Dogs: Witch Hunts Without Witches 14. Cast Into the Wilderness: Scapegoating, Victim Blaming, and Real Monsters15. There’s Always More Witch Hunts: An AddendumPart Three: Primary Source DocumentsCanon Episcopi (10th Century)Summis desiderantes (1484)Malleus Maleficarum, excerpt (1486)Legend of the Black SabathAn Act Against Witchcraft (1604) Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 1 and Scene 3 (1606)“The Discovery of Witches,” excerpt (1647)A Confession of Witchcraft Explained (1668)“A Witch Trial at Mount Holly” (1730) W.I.T.C.H. Manifesto (1968)Mpumalanga Witchcraft Suppression Bill (2007) Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s Apology (2022)BibliographyAbout the AuthorIndex

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