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The Witchcraft Sourcebook by Brian P. Levack

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3.0

Note: this was a required reading for a class.

3/5
I'm not a big fan of witchcraft (as an overall subject), but the history aspect of this was very good. Levack incorporates a ton of sources (near 70), spanning the years between the Romans and very late 1600s. There is a vast amount of "topics" of witchcraft also covered, involving demonic possessions to scripts from the trials.

If you are however, a witchcraft history fanatic who can stand original sources, I highly recommend looking into purchasing this book. There's tons of information to decipher and analyze, however the reading may perhaps be a bit too dense, due to the age of the sources.