Staging Witchcraft Before the Law

Skepticism Performance as Proof and Law as Magic in Early Modern Witch Trials

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21st century
Language: English

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Early modern witch-hunting faced skepticism and evidentiary barriers, making it difficult to convict witches. Judges and accusers used performance staging to overcome these barriers. This Element examines two cases to illustrate ways evidentiary staging can signify in law. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ritual magic and grimoires and Witchcraft and folk magic.

Ritual magic and grimoires
Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the subtitle and “Magic” in the edition subtitle.
- “Magic”· in subtitle
- “Magic”· in edition subtitle
Witchcraft and folk magic
Controlled discovery queries from doab matched “witchcraft”. Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the title, “witches” in the description, and “Witchcraft” in the edition title.
- “witchcraft”· via Directory of Open Access Books
- “Witchcraft”· in title
- “witches”· in description
- “Witchcraft”· in edition title

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Edition	Date	Publisher	Language	ISBN	Access	Links
Skepticism Performance as Proof and Law as Magic in Early Modern Witch Trials Directory of Open Access Books edition	2024	—	English	—	Open access	Directory of Open Access Books (opens in a new tab)