Alchemy Website
The site has 1700+ images, 200+ complete alchemical texts, extensive bibliographical material on the printed books and manuscripts, numerous articles, introductory and general reference material, a searchable database (Adam McLean)
Apotropaios
(Was ‘Folk Magic in Britain’) An exploration of objects, such as witch-bottles, written charms, horse skulls, that that were concealed in and around buildings as spells or counter-spells; sections on each of the various kinds of object, links, book list (Brian Hoggard)
Best Witches
A very useful and wide-ranging set of resources (Joan Pontius) (NB: Wayback Archive)
The Chymistry of Isaac Newton
a scholarly online edition of Newton’s alchemical manuscripts, which include laboratory notebooks, indices of alchemical substances, and his transcriptions from other sources (William R Newman, Indiana University)
The Damned Art
online exhibit of books relating to the history of witchcraft and demonology (University of Glasgow Library)
Early Modern Witchcraft
Vast scholarly bibliography, now searchable and browsable by subject and region (Jonathan Durrant)
To prevent a “Shipwreck of Souls”: Johann Weyer’s defence of Witches
article by Elisa Slattery on Weyer’s ‘De praestigiis demonum’ (U. Virginia)
From Essays in history, 36 (1994)
New light on the ‘Drummer of Tedworth’: conflicting narratives of witchcraft in Restoration England
article by Michael Hunter discussing ‘The Drummer of Tedworth’, a poltergeist case of 1662-3
from Historical Research, 78 (2005)
Salem witch trials documentary archive
An excellent resource for the history of the 1692 witchcraft trials (University of Virginia)
Famous American Trials: Salem Witchcraft Trials
Selected materials for a useful teaching resource (Douglas Linder)
Seventeenth-century New England and the Salem witch trials
A range of resources; includes sections about daily life, religion, the Mathers, as well as the witch trials and The Crucible (Margo Burns)
Spirits, witches and science
Article by Richard Olson on the connections between the developments in seventeenth-century science and beliefs in the supernatural
From Skeptic 1:4 (1992) (NB: at Wayback Archive)
Survey of Scottish Witchcraft
an electronic resource for the history of witchcraft and witch-hunting in Scotland, consisting of a database of all people known to have been accused of witchcraft in early modern Scotland, along with supporting material (Julian Goodare, Lauren Martin, Joyce Miller and Louise Yeoman)
The Witch Hunts
Online primary and secondary source materials and web resources (Internet Archive of Texts and Documents)
Witchcraft in seventeenth-century Flintshire
Original court records digitised, with bibliography (National Library of Wales)
Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England
essay by Alan Macfarlane; an early example of anthropologically-influenced historical study of the subject
chapter in Mary Douglas (ed), Witchcraft, Confessions and Accusations (Tavistock, 1970)
Witchcraft Links WWW-VL
Listing of online primary sources, bibliographies, resources on European and American witchcraft (Stephanie Marra)
The Witching Hours
A beautifully designed site, with sections on: documents; potions and spells; modern parallels; people; punishment and torture; and much more (Shantell Powell)
