RISORSE WEB sul tema della magia e della stregoneria

Dresdener Auswahlbibliographie zur Hexenforschung
Bibliografia critica sulla storia della stregoneria in europa a cura del AKIH Arbeitskreis interdisziplinäre Hexenforschung 

HEXENFORSCHUNG@LISTSERV.DFN.DE
Mailinglist per gli studiosi della storia dei processi contro la stregoneria

HISTORICUM.NET : GESCHICHTE DER HEXENVERFOLGUNG
Parte dell'autorevole portale storico HISTORICUM.NET rappresenta il più completo ed esauriente progetto di gateway in lingua tedesca (parzialmente tradotto in inglese) sulla storia della ricerca sulla stregoneria in europa a cura della Università di Monaco in collaborazione con la Bayerische Staatsbibliothek e la DFG. Il portale è dotato di una sua mailing list, e presenta un ricco servizio informazioni, links, novità, appuntamenti, recensioni. Fa parte del sito il Lexikon zur Geschichte der Hexenverfolgung.

HEXEN ONLINE : das umfassende Portal für Hexen

The Martha Schüler Page
Homepage dedicata alla strega ingiustamente condannata a morte in Germania a Lindheim nel 1664.

The Mystica
Enciclopedia online dell'occulto, misticismo, magia, e paranormale 

The damned art An exhibition of books relating to the history of witchcraft and demonology, drawn mainly from the Ferguson collection (University of Glasgow)

Theological dictionary

Encyclopedia Mythica
più di 6000 definizioni commentate di figure mitologiche, divinità, esseri fantastici e leggendari di tutte le tradizioni. 

Encyclopedia of monsters, mythical creatures and fabulous beasts

Transformations Database A searchable database of works by contemporary writers who use traditional texts for their subject matter; in particular, the collection focuses on works based on mythology, the Bible, fairy tales, and Shakespeare. This database has been created and is maintained by Professor Elise Earthman of the English Department at San Francisco State University

The Alchemy Virtual Library

The Library of Hermetic Philosophy in Amsterdam

The Salem Witch Trials Site at the University of Virginia 

The Salem Witch Trials Memorial

The Witchcraft Bibliography Project
Ambiziosa opera di Jeffrey Merrick della University of Wisconson-Milwaukee e attualmente curato da Richard M. Golden lo scopo di questo complesso progetto bibliografico è quello di riunificare in un'unica sede virtuale l'intero apparato bibliografico internazionale variamente disperso sulla storia della stregoneria in europa.

17th century colonial New England : WITCHCRAFT  The webpage is part of a larger site published and compiled by Margo Burns, who has worked on the University of Virginia Salem witchcraft trials etext project. This site provides hundreds of annotated links to resources on seventeenth century USA. The links are arranged by subject to ease searches and include: archaeological exploration of the period; audio programmes on relevant topics; daily life; images and facsimiles; Native American Indians; and Increase and Cotton Mather. Burns is good when writing in the field of her expertise, which is the Salem trials for witchcraft and there are several good documents on the site.

Witchcraft legends
This Web site has been compiled by Professor Ashliman, emeritus Professor of the University of Pittsburgh. He has collected and translated ten short legends about witchcraft, which illustrate varying conceptualisations of the figure of the witch in German, English, Scottish and Irish mythology. The origins of the tales are provided and these short tales are excellent for discerning the functionality of the application of the figure of the witch to a particular narrative. The topos of the witch is used in a variety of discourses illustrated here. There are a few images and these accounts are excellent for illustrating the varying typology of legend themes.

Early Modern Europe: The Witch Hunts. 
Parte dell'Internet Archive of Texts and Documents dell'Hanover Historical Texts Project il sito presenta un ricco elenco di materiali primari e secondari disponibili in rete sul tema della caccia alle streghe dal 16esimo al 18esimo secolo in Europa. 

THE MALLEUS MALEFICARUM of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger
Versione online completa in lingua inglese dell'edizione del 1928 con note critiche di Montague Summers. 

SCETI : science, the occult, and religion Parte del progetto di archiviazione digitale di facsimili del Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image (SCETI) della University of Pennsylvania Library presenta una piccola ma curata collezione di edizioni facsimilari digitalizzate di testi antichi e manoscritti dal 15esimo al 18esimo secolo riguardanti la filosofia, la magia, l'alchimia e la religione. Tra i testi digitalizzati lo 'Sceptical Chymist' (1661) di Robert Boyle,  'Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit' (1777) di Joseph Priestley,  'Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God' (1706) di Samuel Clarke, il  'Theatricum Chemicum Britannicum' (1652) di Elias Ashmole.

THE DEAD CITY LIBRARY
La misteriosa (rigorosamente anonima) "biblioteca maledetta" ospitata sul server della Freie Universität di Berlino. Una collezione di e-texts da dimenticare in soffitta. 

Folk Magic in Britain 1200-2002 : archaeology and history

The Magic Web : Mythology and Folklore 

Wickedness.Net a comprehensive forum committed to promoting inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary explorations of evil and wickedness 

Arthur Millers' The Crucible
The Web site "Arthur Miller's The Crucible" is an engagement with the historical truth of the Salem witchcraft persecution as portrayed (or not) in Miller's work. Margo Burns, who works as a consultant on the Salem project at University of Virginia, has dedicated a lot of effort to placing material about Salem online. The subject of Arthur Miller's play - the McCarthyite political trials of the nineteen fifties in the USA were commented on through a supposedly similar scape-goating persecutory framework deployed during the infamous events in Salem, MA, culminating in 1692. Miller's work has long been debated by witchcraft historians, for its inaccuracies and generalisations.

Giambattista della Porta : natural magick
This web site contains the texts of Giambattista della Porta's 'Magiae Naturalis' ('Natural Magick') in the original Latin and in the English of the 1658 translation

Icelandic sorcery and witchcraft The Web Site features a permanent exhibition located in Iceland. This is a site of use to undergraduates and those researching the history of witchcraft at a higher academic level. The site is in Icelandic, French, English and German. There is little written on the phenomenon of witchcraft, its practice and trials for witchcraft in Iceland, so this is an excellent site for comparative purposes for those interested in the history of the so-called witch-hunts. 

Eunice "Goody" Cole Hampton's witch
The Web Site "Eunice "Goody" Cole Hampton's Witch" has been compiled by the Lane Memorial Library, Hampton. The site provides a good selection of online and transcribed resources on Eunice Cole (c. 1620-1680), who was convicted of witchcraft in Hampton in 1656. The resources comprise excerpts from the works of John Putnam Demos, Carol F. Karlsen, as well as earlier nineteenth century works by Samuel Drake, Jospeh Dow and Edmund Toppan.

17thCenturyNet : Gateway to the Renaissance and 17th Century on the Net - WITCHCRAFT PAGE

17th century witch in Hadley
The Web Site "17th century witch in Hadley" is a one page text compiled by geneticist Libby Klekowski of the University of Massachusettes. Part of a study on the Connecticut River, the account of Mary Webster (maiden name Reeve), is presented with little commentary or reference to the historiography of witchcraft. 

Letters on demonology and witchcraft by Sir Walter Scott
Description : "Letters on demonology and witchcraft by Sir Walter Scott" has been published online as part of the Sacred Texts project. It is based on a text published in New York in 1885, which originally appeared between 1829 and 1847. The letters are an interesting commentary on most issues pertaining to witchcraft and demonology in a style typical of the nineteenth century interest in the occult, and other such fascinations with the supernatural. Topics discussed include: the Gods of Valhalla; The Prophetesses of the Germans; fairies; Merlin and Arthur; Reginald Scot; and Isobel Gowdie. It is a curious mix, more of use to the literary historian, or historian interested in the portrayal and representation of witchcraft and demonology, or alternatively those in the field of eighteenth century English Studies. A straightforward site presented as pages of consecutive text. 

AT THE EDGE : Links to about 90 on-line articles about archaeology, folklore and mythology

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