Witchcraft, Demonology, and Folklore Texts

Writing about witchcraft and demonology from outside the practice, chiefly early modern European works such as the witch-hunting manual Malleus Maleficarum, King James's Daemonologie and skeptical counter-texts like Reginald Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft, alongside folklorist James Frazer's much later comparative study The Golden Bough. These are historical, legal and scholarly texts about witchcraft, distinct from the Wicca Texts grouping nearby, which holds scripture written by practitioners for practitioners.