Witchcraft Books from the UK & Ireland

Explore books about witchcraft in the UK and Ireland, including witch trials, accusations, folk magic, historical belief and supernatural tradition. The collection ranges from local histories to wider studies of witchcraft and its place in British and Irish culture.

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Pale Hecate's Team

Katharine Briggs

Pale Hecate's Team examines beliefs about witchcraft and magic in England during Shakespeare's lifetime and the generations that followed. Katharine Briggs considers the inheritance of witchcraft ideas, English witch belief and the arguments surrounding them,…

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Paranormal Cumbria

Geoff Holder

Paranormal Cumbria examines reported mysteries from across the county, arranged by theme rather than locality. Geoff Holder revisits the Croglin Vampire and Renwick Cockatrice, considers witchcraft and folk magic from the 17th century onwards, and…

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Paranormal Dundee

Geoff Holder

Paranormal Dundee gathers reports, legends and historical oddities from Dundee and Angus, ranging from witchcraft and UFO sightings to alleged Big Cats. Geoff Holder also examines darker Gothic material, including a man who claimed to…

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Paranormal Glasgow

Geoff Holder

Paranormal Glasgow gathers reported hauntings, strange experiences and supernatural traditions associated with Scotland’s largest city. Geoff Holder covers contemporary ghosts and historical hauntings alongside UFO sightings, big-cat reports, time slips, spontaneous human combustion, bizarre beliefs…

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Paranormal Kent

Neil Arnold

Paranormal Kent gathers reports and traditions connected with the county, ranging from ghost stories and phantom hitchhikers to sightings of big cats, UFOs, monsters and fairies. Neil Arnold also considers accounts of dragons, serpents, hellhounds…

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Paranormal Perthshire

Geoff Holder

Paranormal Perthshire gathers reports of unexplained events and enduring supernatural traditions from across Perthshire. Geoff Holder examines claims of big cats and UFOs, alongside local stories involving fairies, ghosts, witches and other strange occurrences. The…

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Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History

Owen Davies

Owen Davies examines the role of cunning-folk in English history, presenting them as local practitioners consulted about everyday problems rather than as remote, scholarly magicians. Their reported services included finding lost objects, countering suspected spells,…

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Possessed By the Devil

Dr Andrew Sneddon

Possessed By the Devil examines the Islandmagee witch trials in County Antrim in 1711, when eight women were accused of bewitching and demonically possessing Mary Dunbar. Her testimony helped drive a prosecution shaped by local…

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Possession, Puritanism and Print

Marion Gibson

Marion Gibson examines the Elizabethan controversy surrounding John Darrell, a Puritan preacher accused in 1598 of conducting fraudulent exorcisms. The case sits within a wider study of reported demonic possession, religious authority and the printed…

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