The literature of witchcraft

A historical and literary study of how witchcraft has been represented in texts, chronicles, trials, and scholarly debate. It is significant for tracing the evolution of ideas about witchcraft in European culture, and readers will find a broad survey of sources, interpretations, and the social contexts behind them.

George Lincoln Burr (1857–1938) was an American historian noted for his studies of witchcraft, heresy, and religious persecution in early modern Europe. His scholarship helped establish a more critical and documentary approach to the history of European witchcraft and demonological literature.