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Known as LibrarySearch, this interdisciplinary database is UofT's largest--and your best bet when more focused databases let you down. It combs through more than 1,200 databases, journal packages, e-book collections, and other resources ranging from the sciences to the social sciences and humanities. At its best, LibrarySearch finds relevant results you won't find elsewhere; at its worst, however, LibrarySearch can overwhelm you will a mish-mash of results from different subject areas.
The MLA is the major English literature database. It covers criticism related to literature, linguistics and folklore from 1921 to the present, and contains more than 1-million citations to journal articles, series, books, working papers and conference proceedings. Most of the materials indexed before 1963 are American.
Looking for articles, books or essays? This article database, covering from 1920 to the present, is one of the most important resources available. Packed with more than 840,000 records, ABELL refers you to journal articles, books, essay collections, book reviews, and doctoral dissertations. Another advantage is scope. Covering American, British and Commonwealth literature, as well as some material in languages besides English, ABELL is one of the two key indices for literature students--the other is the MLA International Bibliography.
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Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. The database contains over half a million annotated entries.
ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Over one million bibliographic citations to journal articles, essays in books, and book reviews in the field of religion. Covers all aspects of the major world religions and now includes all the content of the online Catholic Periodical and Literature Index.
Burr, George Lincoln, ed. Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914.
Gibson, Marion. Early Modern Witches: Witchcraft Cases in Contemporary Writing. London: Routledge, 2000.
Goodare, Julian, Lauren Martin, Joyce Miller and Louise Yeoman. The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft 1563-1736 [Database]. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, 2003, 2023. https://witches.hca.ed.ac.uk/home/.
James I, King of England. Daemonologie (1597) and Newes From Scotland (1591). London: Bodley Head, 1914.
Mackay, Christopher S, and Heinrich Institoris. The Hammer of Witches: A Complete Translation of the Malleus Maleficarum. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Robertson,David M. Goodnight, My Servants All: The Sourcebook of East Lothian Witchcraft. Glasgow: Grimsay Press, 2008. In Print Only at Knox College.
Scot, Reginald. The Discoverie of Witchcraft. Edited by Brinsley Nicholson. London: Elliot Stock, 1886 [first published 1584].
Webster, David. A Collection of Rare and Curious Tracts on Witchcraft and the Second Sight With an Original Essay on Witchcraft. Edinburgh: G. Webster, 1820.
Weyer, Johann. Witches, Devils, and Doctors in the Renaissance: Johann Weyer, 'De Praestigiis Daemonum'. Edited by George Mora and Benjamin G. Kohl. Translated by John Shea. Binghamton, N.Y: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1991. Available to read online through free registration with the Internet Archive.
Wilby, Emma. The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2011.
"Witchcraft Prosecutions in Time and Place [Interactive Map]." In The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft 1563-1736. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, 2003, 2023. https://witches.is.ed.ac.uk/.
Almond, Philip C. England’s First Demonologist: Reginald Scot & ‘The Discoverie of Witchcraft’. United Kingdom: I. B. Tauris, 2011.
Ankarloo, Bengt, Stuart Clark, and William Monter. Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Period of the Witch Trials. London: Athlone, 2002.
Ankarloo, Bengt, and Gustav Henningsen, eds. Early Modern European Witchcraft: Centres and Peripheries. Oxford: Clarendon, 2023.
Ayanna, Amiri. “Witchcraft, Heinrich Kramer’s Nuremburg Handbook, and Ecclesiasticus: The Construction of the Fifteenth-Century Civic Sorceress.” In Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time, edited by Albrecht Classen, 565-90. Oxford: Clarendon, 2023.
Barry, Jonathan, Marianne Hester, and Gareth Roberts, eds. Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe: Studies in Culture and Belief. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Bever, Edward Watts Morton. The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe: Culture, Cognition, and Everyday Life. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Callow, John. Embracing the Darkness: A Cultural History of Witchcraft. London: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2019.
Clark, Stuart. Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Collins, David J., ed. The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West: From Antiquity to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Douglas, Mary. Witchcraft Confessions and Accusations. London: Routledge, 2004.
Geis, Gilbert, and Ivan Bunn. A Trial of Witches: A Seventeenth-Century Witchcraft Prosecution. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Gibson, Marion. Witchcraft: The Basics. London: Routledge, 2018.
Goodare, Julian. The European Witch-Hunt. London: Routledge, 2016.
Goodare, Julian, ed. Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013.
Goodare, Julian, Lauren Martin, and Joyce Miller, eds. Witchcraft and Belief in Early Modern Scotland. New York: Palgrave Macmillan; 2008.
Kounine, Laura, and Michael Ostling, eds. Emotions in the History of Witchcraft. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Levack, Brian P. Gender and Witchcraft. New York: Routledge, 2001.
Levack, Brian P. "The Great Witch-Hunt." In Handbook of European History 1400-1600: Late Middle Ages, Renaissance and Reformation - Volume 2: Visions, Programs, Outcomes. Leiden: BRILL, 1995.
Levack, Brian P. Witchcraft in the British Isles and New England. New York: Routledge, 2001.
Levack, Brian P. Witchcraft in Continental Europe. New York: Routledge, 2001.
Levack, Brian P. The Witchcraft Sourcebook. London: Routledge, 2014.
Levack, Brian P. Witch-Hunting in Scotland: Law, Politics, and Religion. New York: Routledge, 2008.
Machielsen, Johannes M., ed. The Science of Demons: Early Modern Authors Facing Witchcraft and the Devil. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2020.
Maxwell-Stuart, Peter. "Witchcraft and magic in eighteenth-century Scotland." In Beyond the Witch Trials: Witchcraft and Magic in Enlightenment Europe, edited by Owen Davies and Willem de Blécourt, 81-99. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004.
Montesano, Marina. Witchcraft, Demonology and Magic. MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020.
Montesano, Marina, ed. Folklore, Magic, and Witchcraft: Cultural Exchanges from the Twelfth to Eighteenth Century. London: Routledge, 2021.
Pudney, Eric. A Defence of Witchcraft Belief: A Sixteenth-Century Response to Reginald Scot’s “Discoverie of Witchcraft.” Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021.
Quaife, G. R. Godly Zeal and Furious Rage: The Witch in Early Modern Europe. London: Routledge, 2011.
Rioult, Thibaut. "Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584)." In Magic: A Companion. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2022.
Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America (2013)
Encyclopedia of Witchcraft (2006)
Witchcraft in the Atlantic World - Oxford Bibliographies (2018)
Witch Hunt - Oxford Bibliographies (2018)
Oxford Companion to Scottish History
Both online and in print, and containing more than 1,500 articles, this 5-volume set is the major encyclopedia for Celtic studies.
Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Traditional Literatures
Companion to the Reformation in Scotland, c.1525-1638
Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion
A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. By Peter Berresford Ellis. ABC-CLIO, 1992.
A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. By James MacKillop. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs and Customs. ABC-CLIO, 2000.
Encyclopedia of Religion. GALE, Macmillan Reference, 2005.
The major English-language encyclopedia on Catholic topics, it contains some 17,000 articles, each with a bibliography emphasizing the primary sources. Unfortunately many of the articles in the 2003/online edition are reprints from the 1967 edition without any updating. Use this work to get an overview of a subject and to see how it can be divided into narrower topics for a paper.