The DOI matches its Crossref record.
The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe
Abstract
Exploring the elements of reality in early modern witchcraft and popular magic, through a combination of detailed archival research and broad-ranging interdisciplinary analyses, this book complements
Overview
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
In the citing paper
“But the accused, known locally as healers, blessers, soothsayers, exorcists, magicians, charmers, and fortune tellers, used divination to identify witches and other causes of illness and find thieves and treasures and locate lost objects.”
From An Ethnological Analogy and Biogenetic Model for Interpretation of Religion and Ritual in the Past (2022) · cites this paper as Bever 2008
In the citing paper
“But the accused, known locally as healers, blessers, soothsayers, exorcists, magicians, charmers, and fortune tellers, used divination to identify witches and other causes of illness and find thieves and treasures and locate lost objects.”
From An Ethnological Analogy and Biogenetic Model for Interpretation of Religion and Ritual in the Past (2022) · cites this paper as Bever 2008
In the citing paper
“They offered healing services for people and animals involving incantations, invocation of spirits, counter spells against witches, charms and amulets, rituals involving imitative and image magic, and applications of herbal medicines (Bever 2008).”
From An Ethnological Analogy and Biogenetic Model for Interpretation of Religion and Ritual in the Past (2022) · cites this paper as Bever 2008
Citations
Cites
Still being checked.
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Taxes, Lawyers, and the Decline of Witch Trials in France
Johnson, N. D., & Koyama, M. (2014) · The Journal of Law and Economics · doi:10.1086/674900 · Cited by 67
Schwemer, D. (2015) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cho9781139043021.003 · Cited by 30
Hen, Y. (2015) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cho9781139043021.009 · Cited by 24
An Ethnological Analogy and Biogenetic Model for Interpretation of Religion and Ritual in the Past
Winkelman, M. J. (2022) · Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory · doi:10.1007/s10816-021-09523-9 · Cited by 24
“They offered healing services for people and animals involving incantations, invocation of spirits, counter spells against witches, charms and amulets, rituals involving imitative and image magic, and applications of herbal medicines (Bever 2008).”
BackgroundColonial Magic: The Dutch East Indies
Wiener, M. J. (2015) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cho9781139043021.022 · Cited by 17
Creative Histories of Witchcraft
Corbett, P., Compton, A. K., & Pooley, W. G. (2022) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781009221054 · Cited by 16
Magic, Marvel, and Miracle in Early Islamic Thought
Zadeh, T. (2015) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cho9781139043021.012 · Cited by 16
Witchcraft Beliefs and Witch Hunts
Koning, N. B. J. (2013) · Human Nature · doi:10.1007/s12110-013-9164-1 · Cited by 21
Historians on Drugs: Toward an Empirical Historiography of Global Psychedelic Cultures
Greer, J. C. (2025) · South Atlantic Quarterly · doi:10.1215/00382876-11626593 · Cited by 14
The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West
(2015) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cho9781139043021 · Cited by 14
The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West: From Antiquity to the Present
Collins, J. (2015) · Medical Entomology and Zoology · Cited by 11
Jewish Magic in the Middle Ages
Bohak, G. (2015) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cho9781139043021.013 · Cited by 10
Ostling, M. (2014) · Folklore · doi:10.1080/0015587x.2014.890785 · Cited by 10
Prosaic Witchcraft and Semiotic Totalitarianism: Muscovite Magic Reconsidered
Kivelson, V. A., & Shaheen, J. L. (2011) · Slavic Review · doi:10.5612/slavicreview.70.1.0023 · Cited by 7
‘Viral’ Hunts? A Cultural Darwinian Analysis of Witch Persecutions
Hofhuis, S., & Boudry, M. (2019) · Cultural Science Journal · doi:10.5334/csci.116 · Cited by 7
Keeping a Crooked Sixpence: Coin Magic and Religion in the Colonial Chesapeake
Cofield, S. R. (2014) · Historical Archaeology · doi:10.1007/bf03376938 · Cited by 6
Magliocco, S. (2015) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cho9781139043021.027 · Cited by 6
Tracing the Footsteps of Ritual: Concealed Footwear in America
Costello, J. (2014) · Historical Archaeology · doi:10.1007/bf03376936 · Cited by 6
Psychedelics, Eleusis, and the Invention of Religious Experience
Mosurinjohn, S. C., & Ascough, R. S. (2025) · Psychedelic Medicine · doi:10.1177/28314425251361835 · Cited by 5
Magic and Fate in Eighteenth-Century London: Prosecutions for Fortune-Telling, c . 1678–1830
Mori, J. (2018) · Folklore · doi:10.1080/0015587x.2018.1426688 · Cited by 4
Magic in the Middle Ages: History and Historiography
Collins, D. (2011) · History Compass · doi:10.1111/j.1478-0542.2011.00776.x · Cited by 4
Stratton, K. B. (2015) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cho9781139043021.005 · Cited by 4
Walker, A. (2015) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cho9781139043021.011 · Cited by 5
Magic and Priestcraft: Reformers and Reformation
Parish, H. L. (2015) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cho9781139043021.018 · Cited by 3
Away with the fairies: the psychopathology of visionary encounters in early modern Scotland
Goodare, J. (2019) · History of Psychiatry · doi:10.1177/0957154x19880829 · Cited by 3
Fatur, K., Ravnikar, M., Fras, V., & Kreft, S. (2022) · Plants · doi:10.3390/plants11010126 · Cited by 3
Rider, C. (2015) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cho9781139043021.015 · Cited by 3
Genosko, G. A. (2022) · Deleuze and Guattari Studies · doi:10.3366/dlgs.2022.0493 · Cited by 3
Los niños como víctimas y los niños como verdugos en la caza de brujas: Navarra, siglo XVI
Garayoa, J. M. U. (2021) · Príncipe de Viana · doi:10.35462/pv.279.11 · Cited by 2
Rath, G. (2022) · Edition Kulturwissenschaft · doi:10.14361/9783839452202 · Cited by 2
Uche, I. B., Uche, O. A., & Ene, J. C. (2025) · Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work Social Thought · doi:10.1080/15426432.2025.2549946 · Cited by 2
Magic in Common and Legal Perspectives
Davies, O. (2015) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cho9781139043021.024 · Cited by 2
Magic in the Postcolonial Americas
Romberg, R. (2015) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cho9781139043021.026 · Cited by 2
Fraser, K. A. (2015) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cho9781139043021.007 · Cited by 2
Legislating the witch: a genealogy of juridical thought
Johnson, B. W. (2018) · Culture & History Digital Journal · doi:10.3989/chdj.2018.021 · Cited by 1
Chaemsaithong, K. (2016) · Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics · doi:10.1177/0963947016660230 · Cited by 1
Collins, D. (2015) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cho9781139043021.016 · Cited by 1
Riahi, I. (2014) · Zeitschrift für junge Religionswissenschaft · doi:10.4000/zjr.222 · Cited by 1
Bailey, M. D. (2015) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cho9781139043021.017 · Cited by 1
Imagination and Pleasure in the Cosmography of Thomas Burnet’s Sacred Theory of the Earth
Coppola, A. (2010) · Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks · doi:10.1057/9780230113138_7 · Cited by 1
Kahlos, M. (2015) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cho9781139043021.008 · Cited by 1
Čarovništvo – diskurz ali praksa?
Mencej, M. (2020) · Studia mythologica Slavica · doi:10.3986/sms20202308 · Cited by 1
Malmstedt, G. (2021) · Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-76120-2_8 · Cited by 1
Hale, M., Hawkins, R., & Wright, C. M. (2009) · The Economic History Review · doi:10.1111/j.1468-0289.2009.00507.x · Cited by 1
Attrell, D. (2013) · UWSpace (University of Waterloo) · Cited by 1
Collins, D. (2015) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cho9781139043021.001 · Cited by 1
Veiga, M. A. L. (2012) · Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (Universidade de São Paulo) · doi:10.11606/t.8.2012.tde-03072012-160107
Cunning-folk in Early Modern Ireland
Sneddon, A. (2015) · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · doi:10.1057/9781137319173_4
Elite Magic in the Nineteenth Century
Harvey, D. A. (2015) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cho9781139043021.025
Henderson, L. (2016) · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · doi:10.1057/9781137313249_2
The World of the Witches: Confessions and Conflicts
Wyporska, W. (2013) · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · doi:10.1057/9781137384218_3
Burkhart, L. M. (2015) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cho9781139043021.020
Folk Magic in British North America
Godbeer, R. (2015) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cho9781139043021.021
The Witchcraze and the Crisis of Early Modern Europe, 1400–1650
Marrone, S. P. (2015) · doi:10.1007/978-1-137-02978-2_5
Social Witchcraft: Specialists
Mencej, M. (2016) · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · doi:10.1057/978-1-137-37250-5_6
Social Witchcraft: Neighbourhood Witches
Mencej, M. (2016) · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · doi:10.1057/978-1-137-37250-5_4
Bever, E. (2016) · Magic, ritual, and witchcraft · doi:10.1353/mrw.2016.0017
Self-citationDos episodios de brujería en la Seu d’Urgell. Primer tercio del siglo XVII
Alonso, C. X.-M. (2017) · Manuscrits: Revista d'història moderna · doi:10.5565/rev/manuscrits.163
Looking for Mr Wednesday : towards an Odian philosophical framework
Sharp, C. J. (2013) · UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia)
Kovács, J. (2018) · Kaleidoscope History · doi:10.17107/kh.2018.17.49-66
Those Goddamn ointments: Four histories
Hatsis, T. (2019) · Journal of Psychedelic Studies · doi:10.1556/2054.2019.025
TheNoctambuli: tales of sleepwalkers and secrets of the body in seventeenth-century England
Hunter, E. K. (2020) · The Seventeenth Century · doi:10.1080/0268117x.2020.1855235
Collins, S. J. D. J. (2015) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cho9781139043021.028
Mencej, M. (2016) · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · doi:10.1057/978-1-137-37250-5_8
Hoffmann, F. (2015) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cho9781139043021.004
Waite, G. K., Baccouche, K., & Petreman, C. (2013) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/obo/9780195399301-0169
Introduction: Who Are the Romanians and How to Study Witchcraft in Romania?
Pop‐Curşeu, I., & Pop-Curșeu, Ș. (2022) · Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-15222-1_1
Kosmina, B. (2023) · Palgrave studies in (re) presenting gender · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-25292-1_2
La repressió de la bruixeria als Pirineus centrals. L’Alt Urgell, 1613-1629
Alonso, C. X.-M. (2023) · Manuscrits: Revista d'història moderna · doi:10.5565/rev/manuscrits.266
Şerban, A., & Percec, D. (2024) · Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia · doi:10.24193/subbphilo.2024.3.08
‘The Devil’s Sacraments’: Magical Practice During the Time of the Danish Witch Trials (1589–1660)
Lindgaard, L. H. (2024) · Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-61205-3_8
Sanatta Bir Temsil Biçimi Olarak Büyü
Karameşe, A. (2025) · IBAD Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi · doi:10.21733/ibad.1773622
Stases et statues : l’art de l’immobile dans le théâtre élisabéthain et jacobéen
Coulomb, O. (2017) · theses.fr (ABES) · doi:10.70675/bf271931zb342z4ef5zac32ze4a44c257625
O superdelito de bruxaria na Europa durante a época moderna
Mainka, P. J. (2025) · doi:10.7476/9786587626185.0003
Metadata
- Authors
- Bever, E.
- Corresponding author
- Bever, Edward
- Venue
- Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Published
- 2008
- OpenAlex
- W2491951625
- Cited by
- 76
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 5 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 26 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 7.98
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Medieval and Early Modern Justice
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Historical Philosophy and Science
- Keywords
- witchcraft, popular magic, early modern Europe, witch trials, folk beliefs, supernatural beliefs, history of magic
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
