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Notes

¹Karen McVeigh, “Chef to Stars Unmasked as a Sex‐Obsessed Bully,” Times, March 30, 2006, http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/public/article699091.ece.

²Le Monde Diplomatique, January 10, 2002.

³See Ronald Hutton, Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999). Scholars seem to have come to the opinion that the worst of the witch hunts began around 1450 and continued until the mid‐eighteenth century. See Lila Rajiva, “Satan and Sex Manias,” Peace and Earth Justice web site, January 24, 2007, from which this section draws.

⁴Norman Cohn, Europe's Inner Demons: The Demonization of Christians in Medieval Christianity (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001).

⁵Elaine Pagels, The Origin of Satan (New York: Vintage, 1996).

⁶Ben‐Yehuda, “The European Witch Craze of the 14th to 17th Centuries: A Sociologist's Perspective,” American Journal of Sociology 86, no. 1 (July 1980): 15, 23.

⁷Robin Briggs, Witches and Neighbours: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft (New York: Viking, 1996). Briggs shows that accusations of witchcraft drew on familial tensions, exacerbated by war and food shortages, as well as the presence in communities of single older women living on their own.

⁸This was argued by writers like Pennethorne Hughes in her Witchcraft (London: Penguin, 1970). See also Ronald Hutton, Triumph of the Moon, chapter 18, 340–368, for his account of feminist histories of witchcraft. She uses the frequently ...