<P>Introduction</P><I><P>Marina Montesano</P></I><B><P></P><P>Part 1: Interpreting Folkloric Beliefs</B> </P><P>1. The Tree of the Bourlémonts. Gendered Beliefs in Fairies and Their Transmission From Old To Young Women in Joan of Arc's Domrémy</P><I><P>Andrea Maraschi</P></I><P></P><P>2. The Rejuvenating Blood: Marsilio Ficino and the Witches</P><I><P>Marina Montesano</P></I><P></P><P>3. The Circulation and Exchange of Ideas, Myths, Legends, and Oral Traditions in the Witchcraft Trials of Italy</P><I><P>Debora Moretti</P></I><P></P><P>4. Between Hell and Paradise: The Legend of the Soul of the Emperor Trajan</P><I><P>Vincenzo Tedesco</P></I><B><P></P><P>Part 2: Cultural Exchange among Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Communities</B> </P><P>5. Artificial Creation of Human Life: Ibn Waḥšiyya as a Source of the <I>Futūḥāt al-makkiyya</P><P>Michele Petrone</P></I><P></P><P>6.<I> </I>Fragments of a Jewish Magical Tradition in the Library of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola</P><I><P>Flavia Buzzetta</P></I><P></P><P>7. Parallel Beliefs: Cultural Exchange between Jews and Christians on Magic and Witchcraft, and the Concerns of the Inquisition</P><I><P>Marina Caffiero</P></I><B><P></P><P>Part 3: Preachers as Mediators</P></B><P>8. Some Reports of Magic, Superstition, and Witchcraft in the Medieval <I>Mirabilia</I> Literature</P><I><P>Christa Agnes Tuczay</P></I><P></P><P>9. 'Diabolical sorceries'. Vicent Ferrer's preaching and the emergence of the witchcraft construct(s) in early fifteenth-century Europe</P><I><P>Pau Castell</P></I><P></P><P>10. Circulation of Magic and Folkloric Traditions in the Times of Antonino of Florence and Bernardino of Siena</P><I><P>Fabrizio Conti </P></I><B><P></P><P>Part 4: The Cultural Interpretation of Objects </P></B><P>11. Against the Body of Christ: Exchanges and Cultural Upheavals in Early Modern Italy</P><I><P>Matteo Al Kalak</P></I><P></P><P>12. The Natural and the Supernatural: Collecting, Interests, and Trials of the Nuncio Decio Francesco Vitelli in Venice, 1632-1643</P><I><P>Marco Albertoni</P></I><P></P><P>13. The Witch Unravelled: How Pieter Bruegel the Elder Developed a Visual Code to Depict Witchcraft and Sorcery</P><I><P>Renilde Vervoort </P></I><B><P></P><P>Part 5: Trading Ideas about Witchcraft </P></B><P>14. <I>Ignorantia </I>and<I> Superstitio</I>: A Discussion among Theologians and Inquisitors in the Sixteenth Century</P><I><P>Michaela Valente</P></I><P></P><P>15. The MP and the Astrologer: Rival Cultures of Witchcraft in the East Anglian Witch-hunt</P><I><P>Danny Buck</P></I><P></P><P>16. A Witchcraft Triangle: Transmitting Witchcraft Ideas Across Early Modern Europe</P><I><P>Liv Helene Willumsen</P></I><P></P><P>17. The Shape of Evil: Familiars and Shapeshifting Witches in Seventeenth-Century Finnmark</P><I><P>Amber R. Cederström </P></I><P></P><P>18. Circulating Knowledge in an Enlightened Discourse. Eberhard David Hauber's Witchcraft Quarterly, 1738-1745</P><P><EM>Rita Voltmer </EM></P>