Hostile Witnesses: Rescuing the History of Witchcraft from the Writings of Scholars and Churchmen 1

Preface Prologue Part 1 – The Problem 1.1 Does Witchcraft Have a History? 1.2 But Were They Witches? 1.3 Who Can We Ask? 1.4 Pagan Gods and the Nature of Evil 1.5 To Fly by Night 1.6 But Were They Pagans? Part 2 – Collars and Scholars 2.1 A History of the Histories 2.2 Intrinsic and Evil 2.3 Pagan Rubbish and Blank Chalkboards 2.4 Conventions of the Standard School 2.5 A Crisis in Confidence 2.6 Nothing Happened 2.7 Impact 2.8 A Scale of Skepticism 2.9 Something Happened Part 3 – To Fly by Night 3.1 The Canon Episcopi 3.2 Christians, Pagans and Heretics 3.3 Beliefs of the Canon Episcopi Sect 3.4 “Certain Wicked Women” 3.5 Dreamtime 3.6 Participation and Belief 3.7 Other Scholarly Interpretations 3.8 Augustine’s Influence 3.9 The Sect of the Canon Episcopi Part 4 – Correcting the Pagans 4.1 Who Believed What? 4.2 Uncovering Sin 4.3 Condemning Paganism 4.4 On Magic Arts 4.5 On Superstition and Magic 4.6 Magic and Religion 4.7 Celebrating the New Year 4.8 Knot-Magic 4.9 Fates, Faeries, and Satyrs 4.10 A Bit on Herblore 4.11 Oracles and Places of Worship 4.12 Storms, Love, and Night-rides 4.13 Rites for the Dead 4.14 Conspiracies and Conjurations The Story so Far Bibliography for Volume I