Experiences of magic and witchcraft in the early modern period have often been presented as extraordinary occurrences, when they were, from the perspective of people living during this period, part of a shared and familiar cosmological outlook. By presenting a range of everyday supernatural experiences, from spirit-assisted treasure hunting to magically-assisted recipes, this book will show the extent to which such incidents and the beliefs underlying them have common frames of reference and were accepted as legitimate, if unusual, practices.

Kathryn A. Edwards is Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, USA. Her publications include Leonarde's Ghost: Popular Piety and The Appearance of a Spirit in 1628 (2008; coauthored with Susie Speakman Sutch), Werewolves, Witches, and Wandering Spirits (2002; editor), and Families and Frontiers: Family and Communal Re-creation in the Early Modern Burgundies (2002). She is finishing a book on ghost beliefs, Living with Ghosts: The Dead in European Society from the Black Death to the Enlightenment.

Introduction: what makes magic everyday magic?, Kathryn A. Edwards; Magical lives: daily practices and intellectual discourses in enchanted Catalonia during the early modern era, Doris Moreno Martínez; Lived Lutheranism and daily magic in 17th-century Finland, Raisa Maria Toivo; The guardian angel: from the natural to the supernatural, Antoine Mazurek; False sanctity and spiritual imposture in 17th-century French convents, Linda Lierheimer; Magic, dreams, and money, Jared Poley; The good magicians: treasure hunting in early modern Germany, Johannes Dillinger; A Christian warning: Bartholomaeus Anhorn, demonology, and divination, Jason Coy; The 'antidemons' of Calvinism: ghosts, demons, and traditional belief in the house of François Perrault, Kathryn A. Edwards; The constitution and conditions of everyday magic in late medieval and early modern Catholic Europe, Sarah Ferber; Index.