Witch Hunter versus Confessor about Belief in Witches
Primary Source Project for Chapter Nine
Citations
"'Report on the Witch Hunts' by the Chancellor of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg (26 August 1789)." In Brian A. Pavlac. A Concise History of Western Civilization: Supremacies and Diversities, 220-221. Second Edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. Originally in "VII. The Witch-Persecution at Würzburg." In Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of European History, vol. 3, The Witch Persecutions. Edited by George L. Burr, 28–29. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1912.
[Online link here.]
"'Cautio Criminalis by Friedrich Spee (1631)." ConciseWesternCiv.com. 12 January 2018. <concisewesternciv.com/sources/spee.html> (last accessed 14 January, 2018). Originally in "VIII. The Methods of the Witch-Persecutions." Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of European History, vol. 3, The Witch Persecutions. Edited by George L. Burr, 30–35. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1912.
[Online source here. Another excerpt here and here.]
Further Links and materials for study
Prof. Pavlac's Witch Hunts Site
Hymns by Friedrich von Spee, 1591-1635, https://hymnary.org/person/Spee_Fv.
"Juliusspital: 10 Brutal Witch Hunts with Children at their Heart," https://listverse.com/2016/03/25/10-brutal-witch-trials-with-children-at-their-heart/.
Kathryn A. Edwards, " Review of Cautio Criminalis," August 2005 <https://networks.h-net.org/node/35008/reviews/44299/edwards-von-langenfeld-cautio-criminalis-or-book-witch-trials> or <https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=10837>.
"Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909. 21 Oct. 2018 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05271a.htm>.
The Witch Trials-Würzburg Witch Trials (Germany, 1626-1631) <https://www.witchcraftandwitches.com/trials_wurzburg.html>.
Montaigne, Michel de. ‘‘IX. On Cripples.’’ In Essays of Montaigne, vol. 3, translated by Charles Cotton, edited by William Carew Hazilitt, pp. 322–37. London:Reeves & Turner, 1877. [Selection in Brian A. Pavlac. A Concise History of Western Civilization: Supremacies and Diversities, 100-103. Second Edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. ]
