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• The Witch of Wapping or An Exact and Perfect Relation, of the Life and Devilish Practises of Joan Peterson, who dwelt in Spruce Island, near Wapping; Who was condemned for practising Witch-craft, and sentenced to be Hanged at Tyburn, on Munday the 11th of April, 1652. Shewing, How she Bewitch'd a Child, and rock'd the Cradle in the likenesse of a Cat; how she frighted a Baker; and how the Devil often came to suck her, sometimes in the likeness of a Dog, and at other times like a Squirrel. Together, With the Confession of Prudence Lee, who was burnt in Smithfield on Saturday the 10th of this instant for the murthering her Husband; and her Admonition and Counsel to all her Sex in general. by Unknown; Published: 1652; 22 Pages
• Witchcraft Cast out from the Religious Seed and Israel of God. And the Black Art, Or, Nicromancery Inchantments, Sorcerers, Wizards, lying Divination, Conjuration, and Witchcraft, discovered, with the Ground, fruits, and effects thereof: as it is proved to be acted in the Mistery of Iniquity, by the power of darkness, and witnessed against by Scripture, and declared against also, From, and By them that the world scornfully calleth Quakers. Shewing, the danger thereof, that it may be avoided, by all that fear God, as they will answer it in the Great and Terrible day of the Lord, for he is utterly against those abominations and wicked practises, and those that hold them up, are upholders of the Devil's Kingdome, therefore a warning to you all for going to wizards for Counsell, for you go from God, to the Devill, that go to take Counsell of a wizard.... Also, some things to clear the truth from Reproaches, lies and slanders, and false accusations, occasioned by Daniel Bott and his slander-carriers, which Daniel is a member to the water baptized people, of which accusations cast upon the truth by him and his slander-carriers, truth hath cleared it self and cast out the slanders and false accusations, amongst them from whence they came, there they do remain, one truth stands clear as by the farther do appear: read and understand. Written in Warwickshire, the ninth moneth, 1654. As a Judgement upon Witchcraft, and a deniall, testimony and declaration against Witchcraft, from those that the world reproachfully calleth Quakers by Farnworth, Richard; Published: 1655; 22 Pages
• The Witchcraft Delusion of 1692 by Gov. Thomas Hutchinson, From an Unpublished Manuscript (An Early Draft of his History of Massachusetts) in the Massachusetts Archives, With Notes by William Frederick Poole. by Hutchinson, Thomas, 1698-1769; Published: 1870; 42 Pages
• The Wonderful Discoverie of the Witchcrafts of Margaret and Phillip Flower, Daughters of Joan Flower neere Beuer castle: Executed at Lincolne, March 11.1618 Who were specially arraigned and condemned before Sir Henry Hobart, and Sir Edward Bromley, Judges of Assize, for confessing themselves actors in the destruction of Henry Lord Rosse, with their damnable practices against others the Children of the Right Honourable Francis Earle of Rutland. Together with the severall Examinations and Confessions of Anne Baker, Joan Willimot, and Ellen Greene. Witches in Leicestershire. by Unknown; Published: 1619; 50 Pages
• Wonderful Prodigies of Judgment and Mercy: Discovered in Above Three Hundred Memorable Histories, Containing I. Dreadful Judgments upon Atheists, Perjured Wretches, Blasphemers, Swearers, Cursers and Scoffers. II. The Miserable Ends of divers Magicians, Witches, Conjurers, and c. with several strange Apparitions. III. Remarkable Presages of Approaching Death, and of Appeals to Divine Justice. IV. The Wicked Lives, and Woful Deaths of Wretched Popes, Apostates, and Desperate Persecutors. V. Fearful Judgments upon Cruel Tyrants, Murderers, and c. with the Wonderful Discovery of Murders. VI. Admirable Deliverances from Imminent Dangers and Deplorable Distresses at Sea and Land. VII. Divine Goodness to Penitents, with the Dying Thoughts of several Famous Men concerning a Future State after this Life. Impartially Collected from Antient and Modern Authors, of undoubted Authority and Credit, and Imbellished with divers Curious Pictures, of several Remarkable Passages therein. By R. B. [pseudonym] Author of the History of the Wars of England, and the Remarks of London, and c. by Crouch, Nathaniel; Published: 1682; 243 Pages
• The world bewitch'd, or, An examination of the common opinions concerning spirits: their nature, power, administration and operations, as also the effects men are able to produce by their communication : divided into IV parts / by Balthazar Bekker ... ; vol. I translated from a French copy, approved of and subscribed by the author's own hand. by Bekker, Balthasar, 1634-1698; Published: 1695; 340 Pages
• The Worlde possessed with Deuils, conteinyng three Dialogues. 1. Of the Deuill let loose. 2. Of Blacke Deuils. 3. Of White Deuils. And of the commyng of Jesus Christe to Judgement, a verie necessarie and comfortable discourse for these miserable and daungerous daies. by Viret, Pierre, 1511-1571; Published: 1583; 175 Pages
• The World Turn'd Upside Down: or, A Plain Detection of Errors, In the Common or Vulgar Belief, Relating To Spirits, Spectres or Ghosts, Dæmons, Witches, and c. In a Due and Serious Examination of their Nature, Power, Administration, and Operation. In What Forms or Shape Incorporeal Spirits appear to Men, by what Means, and of what Elements they take to themselves, and form Appearances of Bodies, visible to mortal Eyes; why they appear, and what Frights and Force of Imagination often delude us into the Apprehensions of supposed Phantasms, through the Intimidation of the Mind, and c. Also What evil Tongues have Power to produce of Hurt to Mankind, or Irational Creatures; and the Effects Men and Women are able to produce by their Communication with Good or Evil Spirits, and c. Written at the Request of a Person of Honour by B. B., a Protestant Minister for Publick Information. by Bekker, Balthasar, 1634-1698; Published: 1700; 339 Pages