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The history of witchcraft and sorcery has attracted a great deal of interest, but studies have been largely from the Anglo-Saxon perspective. This book shows how what has hitherto been seen as peculiar to Britain was in fact characteristic of much of northern Europe. It takes into account major developments in the historiography of witchcraft.