1. On Ergot poisoning, see Linda R. Caporael, “Ergotism: The Satan Loosed in Salem,” in Brian P. Levack, Ed., Possession and Exorcism (Abingdon: Taylor and Francis, 1992), 258–262.
2. On the role of military engagements see Nathan Johnstone, The Devil and Demonism in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 213–239;
3. and Diane Purkiss, “Invasions: Prophecy and Bewitchment in the Case of Margaret Muschamp,” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 17, no. 2 (1998): 235–253.
4. See Heinz Gregor Wieser and Michael Fischer, “Temporal Lobe Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus.” Nonconvulsive status epilepticus (New York: Demos Medical Publishing, 2009), 129.
5. Richard J. Ofshe, “Inadvertent Hypnosis during Interrogation: False Confession due to Dissociative State; Mis-Identified Multiple Personality and the Satanic Cult Hypothesis,” International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis 40, no. 3 (1992): 125–156;