Sir Matthew Hale and Witchcraft

Sir William Hale-White, K.B.E.

The Fellowship ofPost Graduate Medicine has to record with great regret the passing of yet another of its original friends and supporters. As we write we have before us a copy of the POST GRADUATE MEDICAL JOURNAL, Vol. I, No. i, of October, I925, with the Foreword written by its founder, who subsequently held office as President of the Fellowship. ' In Great Britain' said Sir William 'the best ...

Witchcraft and Magic in Ireland

Historical Dictionary of Witchcraft

Getting Shot of Elves: Healing, Witchcraft and Fairies in the Scottish Witchcraft Trials

This paper re-examines the evidence of the Scottish witchcraft trials for beliefs associated by scholars with “elf-shot.” Some supposed evidence for elf-shot is dismissed, but other material illuminates the interplay between illness, healing and fairy-lore in early modern Scotland, and the relationship of these beliefs to witchcraft itself.

The physician and witchcraft in restoration England.

THE YEAR of 1660 witnessed important political and scientific developments in England. The restoration of the monarchy and the Church of England occurred with the return of Charles II after the dissolution of the Commonwealth and the Puritan influence. The Royal Society, after informal meetings for nearly fifteen years, was established as a scientific organization in 1660 and received its Royal...