| List of contributors | Page vii | |
| Introduction: witchcraft continued Willem de Blécourt and Owen Davies | 1 | |
| 1 | A case of witchcraft assault in early nineteenth-century England as ostensive action Stephen Mitchell | 14 |
| 2 | Witchcraft, witch doctors and the fight against ‘superstition’ in nineteenth-century Germany Nils Freytag | 29 |
| 3 | The witch and the detective: mid-Victorian stories and beliefs Susan Hoyle | 46 |
| 4 | Narrative and the social dynamics of magical harm in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Finland Laura Stark | 69 |
| 5 | Boiling chickens and burning cats: witchcraft in the western Netherlands, 1850–1925 Willem de Blécourt | 89 |
| 6 | Witchcraft accusations in France, 1850–1990 Owen Davies | 107 |
| 7 | Magical healing in Spain (1875–1936): medical pluralism and the search for hegemony Enrique Perdiguero | 133 |
| 8 | Witchcraft, healing and vernacular magic in Italy Sabina Magliocco | 151 |
| 9 | Curse, maleficium, divination: witchcraft on the borderline of religion and magic Éva Pócs | 174 |
| 10 | Spooks and spooks: black magic and bogeymen in Northern Ireland, 1973–74 Richard Jenkins | 191 |
| Index | 213 |
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Publication information:
Book title: Witchcraft Continued: Popular Magic in Modern Europe.
Contributors: Willem De Blécourt - Editor, Owen Davies - Editor.
Publisher: Manchester University Press.
Place of publication: Manchester, England.
Publication year: 2004.
Page number: v.
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