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Werewolves, Witches, and Wandering Spirits: Traditional Belief and Folklore in Early Modern Europe

Werewolves, Witches, and Wandering Spirits: Traditional Belief and Folklore in Early Modern Europe. Edited by Kathryn A. Edwards. [Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies, Vol. 62.] (Kirksville, Missouri: Truman State University Press. 2002. Pp. xxii, 226. $44.95.)

The essays in this eclectic collection highlight early modern beliefs about a wide variety of supernatural phenomena, analyzing popular culture at its broadest. Edwards explains in a thoughtful introduction that historians dealing with witchcraft have often tended to marginalize the folklore and supernatural aspects of popular belief in their attempts to synthesize witchcraft practices; the ten essays brought together here are ...

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