1. S. Clark, Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (Oxford, 1997).
2. K. V. Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic (London, 1978), p. 684
3. cf. H. R. Trevor-Roper, ‘The European Witch-Craze of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries’, in Trevor-Roper, Religion, the Reformation and Social Change (London, 1967), p. 169.
4. Cf. G. R. Quaife, Godly Zeal and Furious Rage: The Witch in Early Modern Europe (London and Sydney, 1987), pp. 120–1.
5. I share Quaife’s strictures on the functionalist model of witchcraft as state-building. For general discussion of this, and its limited application to the early modern period, see B. P. Levack, ‘State-Building and Witch Hunting in Early Modern Europe’, in J. Barry, M. Hester and G. Roberts (eds), Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe: Studies in Culture and Belief (Cambridge, 1996), pp. 96–115.