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Ambiziosa opera di Jeffrey Merrick della University of Wisconson-Milwaukee e attualmente curato da Richard M. Golden lo scopo di questo complesso progetto bibliografico è quello di riunificare in un'unica sede virtuale l'intero apparato bibliografico internazionale variamente disperso sulla storia della stregoneria in europa

Parte del progetto di archiviazione digitale di facsimili del Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image (SCETI) della University of Pennsylvania Library presenta una piccola ma curata collezione di edizioni facsimilari digitalizzate di testi antichi e manoscritti dal 15esimo al 18esimo secolo riguardanti la filosofia, la magia, l'alchimia e la religione. Tra i testi digitalizzati lo 'Sceptical Chymist' (1661) di Robert Boyle, 'Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit' (1777) di Joseph Priestley, 'Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God' (1706) di Samuel Clarke, il 'Theatricum Chemicum Britannicum' (1652) di Elias Ashmole.

The webpage is part of a larger site published and compiled by Margo Burns, who has worked on the University of Virginia Salem witchcraft trials etext project. This site provides hundreds of annotated links to resources on seventeenth century USA. The links are arranged by subject to ease searches and include: archaeological exploration of the period; audio programmes on relevant topics; daily life; images and facsimiles; Native American Indians; and Increase and Cotton Mather. Burns is good when writing in the field of her expertise, which is the Salem trials for witchcraft and there are several good documents on the site.

Description : "Letters on demonology and witchcraft by Sir Walter Scott" has been published online as part of the Sacred Texts project. It is based on a text published in New York in 1885, which originally appeared between 1829 and 1847. The letters are an interesting commentary on most issues pertaining to witchcraft and demonology in a style typical of the nineteenth century interest in the occult, and other such fascinations with the supernatural. Topics discussed include: the Gods of Valhalla; The Prophetesses of the Germans; fairies; Merlin and Arthur; Reginald Scot; and Isobel Gowdie. It is a curious mix, more of use to the literary historian, or historian interested in the portrayal and representation of witchcraft and demonology, or alternatively those in the field of eighteenth century English Studies. A straightforward site presented as pages of consecutive text.

This Web site has been compiled by Professor Ashliman, emeritus Professor of the University of Pittsburgh. He has collected and translated ten short legends about witchcraft, which illustrate varying conceptualisations of the figure of the witch in German, English, Scottish and Irish mythology. The origins of the tales are provided and these short tales are excellent for discerning the functionality of the application of the figure of the witch to a particular narrative. The topos of the witch is used in a variety of discourses illustrated here. There are a few images and these accounts are excellent for illustrating the varying typology of legend themes.