1. Davies, ‘Decriminalising the Witch’: 207–9; Levack, ‘Witch-hunting in Scotland’, Chapter 8; idem, ‘Witch-hunt in Early Modern Europe’, Chapter 8; Sharpe, Instruments of Darkness, Chapter 9; idem, Witchcraft in Early Modern England, Chapter 5; Behringer, Witches and Witch-hunts: 186–9; Cameron, Enchanted Europe, Chapter 17; Brian P. Levack, ‘The Decline and End of Witchcraft Prosecutions’, in Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra and Roy Porter (eds), The Athlone History of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: Volume 5, the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (London, 1999): 3–33;
2. Edward Bever, ‘Witchcraft Prosecutions and the Decline of Magic’, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 40/2 (2009): 264–72, 291–2. Bever also suggests that the decline in witchcraft trials occurred as a result of a questioning in European culture of the level of threat witchcraft was believed to pose. This was in its turn engendered by a general crisis of authority in the seventeenth century, increased secularisation in legal and political administrations, and ongoing social, economic, and technological change and improvement: idem, 292.
3. See, Trevor-Roper, Witch-Craze: 97–112; Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Chapters 18, 22; Barbara Shapiro, Probability and Certainty in Seventeenth-Century England (Princeton, 1983), Chapter 6;
4. Joseph Klaits, Servants of Satan: The Age of the Witch-hunts (Bloomington, 1985): 173–5; and
5. Brian Easlea, Witch-hunting, Magic, and the New Philosophy: An Introduction to Debates of the Scientific Revolution, 1450–1750 (Suffolk, 1980): 197.