The Lancashire Witches : Histories and Stories

Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: the Lancashire witches in historical context James Sharpe; 2 Potts, plots and politics: James I's Daemonologie and The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches Stephen Pumfrey; 3 Thomas Potts's 'dusty memory': reconstructing justice in The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches Marion Gibson; 4 'Those to whom evil is done': family dynamics in the Pendle witch trials Jonathan Lumby; 5 Witchcraft, economy and society in the forest of Pendle John Swain; 6 The Reformation in the parish of Whalley Michael Mullett. 7 Beyond Pendle: the 'lost' Lancashire witches Kirsteen Macpherson Bardell8 The pilot's thumb: Macbeth and the Jesuits Richard Wilson; 9 Sexual and spiritual politics in the events of 1633-34 and The Late Lancashire Witches Alison Findlay; 10 The 'Lancashire novelist' and the Lancashire witches Jeffrey Richards; 11 Wicca, Paganism and history: contemporary witchcraft and the Lancashire witches Joanne Pearson; Bibliography; Index