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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Christian Perspectives on Witchcraft in Europe and North America | |
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| Primary Sources | |
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| The Methods of the Devil | |
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| On Witchcraft | |
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| The Discovery of Witches: In Answer to Several Queries | |
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| On Witches and Witchcraft | |
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| Commentaries | |
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| The Non-Existent Society of Witches | |
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| The Relevance of Social Anthropology to the Historical Study of English Witchcraft | |
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| Scottish Witchcraft in Its Comparative Setting | |
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| Witchcraft and Puritan Beliefs | |
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| A World of Wonders | |
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| Non-Christian Beliefs | |
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| Europeans and North American Colonists | |
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| The Night Battles | |
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| The Night-Witch in Popular Imagination | |
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| Image Magic and the Like | |
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| Divining, Healing, and Destroying | |
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| Africans | |
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| Activities of African Witches | |
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| Witchcraft among the Azande | |
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| African Americans | |
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| Magical Practices and Beliefs | |
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| Archaeological Evidence for a Possible Witch in Barbados, West Indies | |
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| An Afro-American Folk Religion | |
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| American Indians | |
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| The Indian Response | |
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| Indian Shamans and English Witches | |
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| Pueblo Witchcraft | |
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| The Medicine Man and the Kanaima | |
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| Factions and Exclusions in Two South American Village Systems | |
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| Diabolical Possession | |
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| Primary Sources | |
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| The Possession of Elizabeth Knapp of Groton | |
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| Bewitchment of the Goodwin Children | |
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| Commentaries | |
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| Classic Accusers: The Possessed | |
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| Possession and Dispossession | |
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| Witchcraft in New England | |
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| Witchcraft: The "Captivity to Spectres" | |
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| Gender | |
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| Primary Sources | |
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| Why Women Are Chiefly Addicted to Evil Superstitions | |
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| The Character of a Virtuous Woman | |
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| Two Sermons on Women and the Devil | |
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| Commentaries | |
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| The Making of the Great Witch-Hunt | |
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| The Myth of the Improved Status of Protestant Women: The Case of the Witchcraze | |
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| The Devil, the Body, and the Feminine Soul in Puritan New England | |
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| Words, Witches, and Woman Trouble | |
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| The Economic Basis of Witchcraft | |
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| Who Were the Witches? | |
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| Salem: A Case Study of the Primary Documents | |
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| Legal Procedures | |
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| Conjuration and Witches | |
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| On the Identification of a Witch | |
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| The Accused | |
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| Examination of Tituba | |
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| Examination of Rebecca Nurse | |
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| Examination of Bridget Bishop | |
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| Narrative of the Salem Events | |
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| The Accusers | |
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| Elizabeth Hubbard against Tituba | |
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| Abigail Williams against Tituba and Rebecca Nurse | |
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| Ann Putnam, Jr., against Rebecca Nurse | |
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| Deliverance Hobbs against Bridget Bishop | |
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| John Hale against Bridget Bishop | |
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| Advice of the Clergy | |
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| The Doubters | |
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| A Multitude of Errors | |
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| The Apology of the Jury | |
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| That Sad Catastrophe | |
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| Historians' Commentaries on the Salem Case | |
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| Witchcraft at Salem Village | |
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| Witchcraft, the Courts, and Countermagic | |
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| Tituba's Confession: The Multicultural Dimensions of the 1692 Salem Witch-Hunt | |
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| Through the Clouds | |
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| Medical and Psychological Interpretations | |
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| Ergot and the Salem Witchcraft Affair | |
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| Ergot, Demonic Possession, and Hallucinogenic Drugs | |
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| Underlying Themes in the Witchcraft of Seventeenth-Century New England | |
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| The Salem Legacy | |
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| Primary Source | |
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| An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft and Dealing with Evil and | |
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| Commentaries | |
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| Altered Lives | |
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| 1692: Some New Perspectives | |
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| The Invisible World at the Vanishing Point | |
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| Magic, Astrology, and the Early American Religious Heritage, 1600-1760 | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Bibliographic Note | |
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| Subject Index | |
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| Name Index | |
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| About the Editor | |