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This study of male witches addresses incidents of witch-hunting in Britain and Europe, using feminist categories of gender analysis to critique the feminist agenda that mars many studies. It advances a more balanced and complex view of witch-hunting and ideas about witches in their gendered forms.

Esoteric sciences --- History of Europe --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Warlocks --- Witchcraft --- History. --- Warlocks. --- Witchcraft. --- Witchcraft - Europe - History. --- Parapsychology & Occult Sciences --- Social Sciences --- Occultists --- Witches --- Wizards --- History

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The strix was a persistent feature of the folklore of the Roman world and subsequently that of the Latin West and the Greek East. She was a woman that flew by night, either in an owl-like form or in the form of a projected soul, in order to penetrate homes by surreptitious means and thereby devour, blight or steal the new-born babies within them. The motif-set of the ideal narrative of a strix attack - the 'strix-paradigm' - is reconstructed from Ovid, Petronius, John Damascene and other sources, and the paradigm's impact is traced upon the typically gruesome representation of witches in Latin literature. The concept of the strix is contextualised against the longue-durée notion of the child-killing demon, which is found already in the ancient Near East, and shown to retain a currency still as informing the projection of the vampire in Victorian fiction.

Witchcraft --- Witches --- Mythology, Roman. --- Roman mythology --- Occultists --- Warlocks --- Wiccans --- Black art (Witchcraft) --- Sorcery --- Occultism --- Wicca

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This book critiques historians' assumptions about witch-hunting as well as their explanations for this complex and perplexing phenomenon. The authors insist on the centrality of gender, tradition and ideas about witches in the construction of the witch as a dangerous figure. They challenge the marginalisation of male witches by feminist and other historians. The book shows that large numbers of men were accused of witchcraft in their own right, in some regions, more men were accused than women. The authors analyse ideas about witches and witch prosecution as gendered artefacts of patriarchal societies under which both women and men suffered. They challenge recent arguments and current orthodoxies by applying crucial insights from feminist scholarship on gender to a selection of statistical arguments, social-historical explanations, traditional feminist history and primary sources, including trial records and demonological literature. The authors assessment of current orthodoxies concerning the causes and origins of witch-hunting will be of particular interest to scholars and students in undergraduate and graduate courses in early modern history, religion, culture, gender studies and methodology.

Witchcraft --- Warlocks --- History. --- literature --- gender --- witchcraft --- Demonology --- Early modern Europe --- Early modern period --- Torture --- Witch-hunt

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Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Wizards --- Magic --- Schools --- Latin language materials --- England --- Latin language materials. --- Latijn --- Enchanters --- Sorcerers --- Magicians --- Warlocks --- School stories --- Magic tricks

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German literature --- Witches --- Trials (Witchcraft) --- History --- Occultists --- Warlocks --- Wiccans --- Witchcraft --- Witches - Switzerland - Schwyz - History - 18th century - Fiction --- Trials (Witchcraft) - Switzerland - Schwyz - History - 18th century - Fiction