The 4000-year story of witchcraft and magic - from the ancient world to Harry Potter... and beyond...

• Editor's Foreword


• 1: Peter Maxwell-Stuart: Magic in the Ancient World


• 2: Sophie Page: Medieval Magic


• 3: James Sharpe: The Demonologists


• 4: Rita Voltmer: The Witch Trials


• 5: Charles Zika: The Witch and Magician in European Art


• 6: Owen Davies: The World of Popular Magic


• 7: Owen Davies: The Rise of Modern Magic


• 8: Robert J. Wallis: Witchcraft and Magic in the Age of Anthropology


• 9: Willem de Blécourt: Witches on Screen


• Further Reading


• Picture acknowledgements


• Index

Owen Davies is Professor of Social History at the University of Hertfordshire. He has written extensively on the history of magic, witchcraft, ghosts, and popular medicine, including The Haunted: A Social History of Ghosts (2007), Grimoires: A History of Magic Books (2009), Paganism: A Very Short Introduction (2011), Magic: A Very Short Introduction (2012), and most recently America Bewitched: The Story of Witchcraft after Salem(2013).