WITCHCRAFT
The Discoverie of Witchcraft
Reginald Scot’s 1584 attack on the whole belief in witchcraft — and, because he set out everything he was refuting, the fullest record of what Elizabethan England actually thought witches did. King James ordered it burned.
The Discoverie of Witchcraft runs to 176 chapters, 2,850 passages. The whole of it is held here and free to read, searchable by reference or by the words in it.
The edition held here is The Discoverie of Witchcraft (Nicholson’s 1886 reprint of the 1584 first edition) (1584), in English, in the public domain, from Project Gutenberg.
It sits on the estate's shelf of 106 sacred works, beside the complete Douay-Rheims Bible, an atlas of the places named in scripture, a timeline and a genealogy.