Encounters with Witchcraft and Witches

This is a set of essays on the history and anthropology of witchcraft and witches by the author of 'Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England; a regional and comparative study'. It covers aspects of the history of English witchcraft from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and witchcraft beliefs and their decline in a mountain village in Nepal. The essays are republished from scattered sources and address one of the most curious episodes in human history, the belief that others can harm us through their malevolent thoughts.