Witchcraft Belief, Representation and Memory in Modern Ireland

Witchcraft and Magic in Ireland

English Reformation and Irish Witches the Effects of Confessionalisation in Suppressing Witchcraft Accusations in Early Modern Ireland

There was a witch in Youghal. l\1ary Longdon testified before the Assize at Cork on 11 September, 1661, that she had been bewitched by Florence Newton. Longdon said Newton, after kissing her on the forehead, had caused her to suffer fits and trances, during which Longdon saw Newton's face and knew that Newton was the cause of her malady. Longdon testified that during her fits she vomited foreig...

Ritual, Belief and the Dead in Early Modern Britain and Ireland

Drawing on archaeological, historical, theological, scientific and folkloric sources, Sarah Tarlow’s interdisciplinary study examines belief as it relates to the dead body in early modern Britain and Ireland. From the theological discussion of bodily resurrection to the folkloric use of body parts as remedies, and from the judicial punishment of the corpse to the ceremonial interment of the soc...

Bedeviling Spectacle: Law, Literature, and Early Modern Witchcraft

Belief and Beyond: The Law, the Nation, and the Drama in Joanna Baillie's Witchcraft