LibGuides: Religious Studies (General): Witchcraft and the Occult

Witchcraft and the Occult

Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition
Rockefeller Library | This multi-volume encyclopedia contains articles about witches and witchcraft in the western world.
Magic (Oxford Bibliographies)
Online | This annotated bibliography provides an overview of scholarship on magic from the perspective of anthropology.
The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America
Online | This handbook contains essays organized around of beliefs, trials, and scholarly themes around witchcraft.
Witchcraft (Oxford bibliographies)
Online | This annotated bibliography provides an overview of scholarship on witchcraft in medieval Europe.
Witchcraft in the Atlantic World (Oxford Bibliographies)
Online | This annotated bibliography provides an overview of scholarship on witchcraft in Europe and America in the 15th through the 18th centuries.

The Cornell University Witchcraft Collection
Online | This print and digitized collection contains thousands of documents illustrating the history of the Inquisition and witchcraft, primarily in Europe.
Early Modern Witch Trials
Online | This is a collection of primary sources relating to the witch craze in 17th century England from the British National Archives.
Magic and Occult Collections (John Hay Library)
John Hay Library| The John Hay Library has a number of different primary source collections related to magic and the occult.
Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History
Rockefeller Library | This is a collection of primary source documents each of which is contextualized with an introduction.

Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft
Online | Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft publishes peer-reviewed articles from a variety of perspectives, methods, and disciplines.
Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural
Online | Preternature is an interdisciplinary forum for the study of the preternatural as seen in magics, witchcraft, spiritualism, occultism, prophecy, monstrophy, demonology, and folklore.

Browse the catalog with Library of Congress Subject Terms:

Browse the shelves with Library of Congress Call Numbers: