Presentations
Baba Yaga is among the most famous figures from Slavic folktales and an excellent of example of the stereotypical image of a witch in the early modern European period. This short four minute presentation discusses this folktale and how the development of mythological creatures from Slavic folklore have evolved into fairy-tale type creatures that we see in pop culture today.
Books
- The Hammer of Witches: A Complete Translation of the Malleus Maleficarum, Christopher S. Mackay
- Women And Gender In Early Modern Europe, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
- Male Witches In Early Modern Europe, Lara Apps
- The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power, Carole Levin
Academic Articles
- Bever, Edward. “Witchcraft, Female Aggression, and Power in the Early Modern Community.” Journal of Social History 35, no. 4 (2002): 955–88. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3790618.
- Clark, Stuart. “Inversion, Misrule and the Meaning of Witchcraft.” Past & Present, no. 87 (1980): 98–127. http://www.jstor.org/stable/650567.
- Whitney, E. (1995). The Witch “She”/The Historian “He”: Gender and the Historiography of the European Witch-Hunts. Journal of Women’s History 7(3), 77-101. doi:10.1353/jowh.2010.0511.
Websites
Documentary’s
- Witches: A Century of Murder. Channel 5 Broadcasting Ltd., 2020. https://www.netflix.com/watch/80118891?trackId=13752289.
