Foreign

English: legal events, etc

Literary/Dramatic

1486: Malleus Maleficarum

1563: Weyer’s sceptical de praestigiis daemonem

1590-2 North Berwick Witches (Scotland), panic in Wolfenbuttel, Germany

1611-2 catastrophic panic at Ellwangen, Germany

1629 Wurzburg

1634 Loudon, France

1647: first execution in America

1692: Salem witch trials, 19 executed. Last American executions

1727 Last execution for witchcraft in Scotland

1745 Last execution for witchcraft in France

1775 Last execution for witchcraft in germany

1542 Statute against witchcraft, revoked 1547

1563: new statute against invoking demons

1566 trial of Elizabeth Francis

1579 Essex assizes

1589 Chelmsford witches

1604 James’s statute against ‘pact’ witchcraft

1605 Case of Anne Gunter

1612 Lancashire witch trial

1621 Trial of Elizabeth Sawyer

1633-4 Lancashire witches – William Harvey directs examiners

1644-5 Matthew Hopkins active in Essex

1684: Last execution for witchcraft in England (between 300 and 1000 have been hanged)

1736 Statute against prosecutions

1751: Mob in Hertfordshire kills two accused: ringleader of mob hanged

1584 Reginald Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft

c1590Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay

1594 First performances, Dr Faustus?

1597, King James, Daemonologie

1604, The Wise-woman of Hogsden

1605 Macbeth; Sophonisba

1608 William Perkins’ Discourse upon the Damnable Art

1609, Feb.: The Masque of Queenes

1611 The Tempest

1612 The Witch

1621 The Witch of Edmonton

1634 The Late Lancashire Witches

1666 Glanvil, Some philosophical considerations

1677 Webster answers Glanvil

1681 Glanvil re-issues his book as Sadducismus Triumphatus

1718 Hutchinson’s Historical Essay touching witchcraft