1. Jonathan Barry, ‘Introduction: Keith Thomas and the Problems of Witchcraft’, in J. Barry, M. Hester, and G. Roberts (eds), Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe: Studies in Culture and Belief (Cambridge, 1996): 8–9. For the ‘charity-refused’ model, see Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Chapter 17, and Macfarlane, Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England.
2. Sally Parkin, ‘Witchcraft, Women’s Honour and Customary Law in Early Modern Wales’, Social History, 31/3 (2006): 298–9.
3. For witchcraft and old age, see p. 60. For witchcraft accusations in children and adolescents, see James Sharpe, ‘Disruption in the Well-Ordered Household: Age, Authority and Possessed Young People’, in Paul Griffiths, Adam Fox, and Steve Hindle (eds), The Experience of Authority in Early Modern England (London, 1996): 187–216. Furthermore, Lyndal Roper argues that by the end of the witch-hunts in Europe, when old women were no longer deemed credible witches, attention shifted fleetingly towards self-confessed child and adolescent witches:
4. Lyndal Roper, ‘Evil Imaginings and Fantasies: Child Witches and the end of the Witch-craze’, Past and Present, 167/1 (2000): 107–39.
5. Stuart MacDonald, ‘Enemies of God Re-visited: Recent Publications on Scottish Witchcraft’, Scottish Economic and Social History, 23/2 (2003): 76–7; Levack, Witch-hunting in Scotland, Chapter 6.