Introduction

Part 1: Interpreting Folkloric Beliefs

1. The Tree of the Bourlémonts. Gendered Beliefs in Fairies and Their Transmission From Old To Young Women in Joan of Arc's Domrémy

2. The Rejuvenating Blood: Marsilio Ficino and the Witches

3. The Circulation and Exchange of Ideas, Myths, Legends, and Oral Traditions in the Witchcraft Trials of Italy

4. Between Hell and Paradise: The Legend of the Soul of the Emperor Trajan

Part 2: Cultural Exchange among Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Communities

5. Artificial Creation of Human Life: Ibn Waḥšiyya as a Source of the Futūḥāt al-makkiyya

Michele Petrone

6. Fragments of a Jewish Magical Tradition in the Library of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

7. Parallel Beliefs: Cultural Exchange between Jews and Christians on Magic and Witchcraft, and the Concerns of the Inquisition

8. Some Reports of Magic, Superstition, and Witchcraft in the Medieval Mirabilia Literature

9. 'Diabolical sorceries'. Vicent Ferrer's preaching and the emergence of the witchcraft construct(s) in early fifteenth-century Europe

10. Circulation of Magic and Folkloric Traditions in the Times of Antonino of Florence and Bernardino of Siena

11. Against the Body of Christ: Exchanges and Cultural Upheavals in Early Modern Italy

12. The Natural and the Supernatural: Collecting, Interests, and Trials of the Nuncio Decio Francesco Vitelli in Venice, 1632-1643

13. The Witch Unravelled: How Pieter Bruegel the Elder Developed a Visual Code to Depict Witchcraft and Sorcery

14. Ignorantia and Superstitio: A Discussion among Theologians and Inquisitors in the Sixteenth Century

15. The MP and the Astrologer: Rival Cultures of Witchcraft in the East Anglian Witch-hunt

16. A Witchcraft Triangle: Transmitting Witchcraft Ideas Across Early Modern Europe

17. The Shape of Evil: Familiars and Shapeshifting Witches in Seventeenth-Century Finnmark

18. Circulating Knowledge in an Enlightened Discourse. Eberhard David Hauber's Witchcraft Quarterly, 1738-1745

Rita Voltmer