Chapter II: Introduction: vii

CHAPTER

I. THE WITCH: HERETIC AND ANARCHIST 1

II. THE WORSHIP OF THE WITCH 51

III. DEMONS AND FAMILIARS 81

IV. THE SABBAT 110

V. THE WITCH IN HOLY WRIT 173

VI. DIABOLIC POSSESSION AND MODERN SPIRITISM 198

VII. THE WITCH IN DRAMATIC LITERATURE 276

BIBLIOGRAPHY 315

INDEX 347

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PLATE

I. THE DEPARTURE FOR THE SABBAT (David Teniers) _Frontispiece_

PAGE

II. THE WORLD TOST AT TENNIS. 4to., 1620 8
(_Facsimile title-page._)

III. COMPENDIVM MALEFICARVM. MEDIOLANI, 1626 82
(_Facsimile title-page of second edition._)

IV. OFF TO THE SABBAT (Queverdo) 120

V. THE SABBAT (Ziarnko) 144

VI. THE WITCH OF ENDOR (W. Faithorne) 178
(_Frontispiece to Sadducismus Triumphatus_, 1681)

VII. S. JAMES VISITS THE WARLOCK’S DEN (Pieter Breughel) 250

VIII. THE WITCH OF EDMONTON. 4to., 1658 290
(_Facsimile title-page._)