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100	1		_aBurr, George Lincoln, _d1857-1938
245	1	4	_aThe literature of witchcraft
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-11-12
508			_adeaurider, Tom Trussel, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520			_aThe literature of witchcraft by George Lincoln Burr is a scholarly historical essay written in the late 19th century. It surveys how writings about witchcraft emerged, spread, and waned, and how that literature shaped belief, law, and persecution across Europe. The likely topic is the development of witchcraft theory and its bibliographic and historical footprint from the Middle Ages through the Enlightenment. The book opens by distinguishing age-old magic from the later construct of “witchcraft,” then traces how Christian demonology evolved from early Church debates and the canon Episcopi to a Devil-centered system solidified by scholastic theology and enforced by the Inquisition. It follows the rise of dedicated treatises from inquisitorial Dominicans and the decisive impact of printing and the “Witch-Hammer,” through pre-Reformation controversy and a broad post-Reformation consolidation in which jurists, clergy, and states intensified prosecutions. Burr then charts a countercurrent of skeptics and reformers—from physicians and humanists to pastors and Jesuits—whose critiques of torture, procedure, and demonology helped turn the tide in the later seventeenth century, culminating in Enlightenment challenges that severed witchcraft from legal credibility. He closes with an assessment of earlier and then-modern scholarship, notes the strengths and gaps in bibliographies and archives, and argues that the history of witchcraft belongs chiefly to theology rather than folklore, while calling for fuller, source-based research. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cNew York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1890
653			_aWitchcraft -- Bibliography
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/literatureofwitc00burr
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77223
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