A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718

CHAPTER I.

THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH WITCHCRAFT.

It has been said by a thoughtful writer that the subject of witchcraft has hardly received that place which it deserves in the history of opinions. There has been, of course, a reason for this neglect--the fact that the belief in witchcraft is no longer existent among intelligent people and that its history, in consequence, seem...