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British Library
Collection: Witchcraft and Magic in England, c. 1400–1920 Volumes British Library
Content sourced from the British Library includes rare manuscript sources, some dating from as early as the fourteenth century. Included are items from the collections of the physician, collector, and botanist, Sir Hans Sloane, and from that amassed by the British statesman, Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford (Sloane MS and Harley MS). These include treatises and tracts on astrology, alchemy, astronomy, and natural philosophy. There are printed works concerned with occult science, magic, and divinity, as well as astrological almanacs (e.g. 718.g.54.) and herbals (e.g. C.71.d.22.).
The sources also include over 50 popular ballads, pamphlets, and tracts concerning accusations of witchcraft (e.g. G.19147.(3)), trials (e.g. C.27.a.2.), as well as condemnations and executions from the mid-sixteenth century onwards. In addition, the volume includes accounts—dating mainly from the seventeenth century—of visitations, possessions (e.g. E.367.(4.)), apparitions (e.g. G.13201.), curses, and poisonings.
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