One of the loci classici for Renaissance witchcraft debate is 1 Samuel 28, story about King Saul's desperate consultation a female necromancer in Endor at eve his battle against Philistines. The demonization woman reached its climax learned concept as it circulated throughout Europe and on British Isles late medieval early modern period. much-maligned also featured prominently only treatise eve...

This article revisits a question with which historians of early modern European witchcraft have long grappled: why was the average percentage male suspects so small (approximately 10–30 per cent), and female large? Drawing on recent studies by economic historians, it argues that this skewed gender ratio can be explained, in part, gendered patterns work obtained Europe. Focusing England, shows h...