elizabethan times?

Question

i am doing an english project on witchcraft in elizabethan england but it is hard to find a lot. so if you know a good websit (not a search one) or a book of just tell me what you know that would be great!!

Answer 1

This may help:

http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-witchcraft-and-witches.htm
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/guide16/part09.html
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-superstitions.htm
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/john-dee.htm

There's not as much as I thought. Try also your library for more detailed information.

Answer 2

Witchcraft wasn't so much of an issue in the time of Elizabeth I as it was in that of her successor, James I.
He became caught up in the hysteria about witchcraft in the early 17thC and wrote a book entitled 'A Treatise On Witchcraft' which further fuelled people's fears and superstitions and a number of witch hunts and executions ensued throughout Britain.
Fairly local to where I live (Lancashire, North West England)
were The Pendle Witches and I'll post a site you can look at about them.
Hope this helps.

Answer 3

James A. Sharpe Instruments of Darkness
J.Barry et al. (eds) Witchcraft in Early Modern England: Studies in Culture and Belief (1996)
are the best books.

Answer 4

have you ever thought of asking a librarian??