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The literature of witchcraft by George Lincoln Burr is a scholarly historical essay written in the late 19th century. It surveys how writings about witchcraft emerged, spread, and waned, and how that literature shaped belief, law, and persecution across Europe. The likely topic is the development of witchcraft theory and its bibliographic and historical footprint from the Middle Ages through the Enlightenment.
The book opens by distinguishing age-old magic from the later construct of “witchcraft,” then traces how Christian demonology evolved from early Church debates and the canon Episcopi to a Devil-centered system solidified by scholastic theology and enforced by the Inquisition. It follows the rise of dedicated treatises from inquisitorial Dominicans and the decisive impact of printing and the “Witch-Hammer,” through pre-Reformation controversy and a broad post-Reformation consolidation in which jurists, clergy, and states intensified prosecutions. Burr then charts a countercurrent
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