The return of stolen goods: Reginald Scot, religious controversy, and magic in Bodleian Library, Additional B. 1.(Discoverie of Witchcraft)(Critical essay) From: Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft | Date: December 22, 2006| Author: Klaassen, Frank; Phillips, Christopher | COPYRIGHT 2006 University of Pennsylvania Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

at the nomination of the guiltye person, the syve will turne rounde.

--Reginald Scot, Discoverie of Witchcraft

Stanley Tambiah has criticized the "religion, science, and magic" model employed by anthropologists and modern historians as an anachronistic product of the religious controversies of the Protestant Reformation. (1) Although they were rightly among his targets, scholars of the premodern world for the most part have accepted his critiques and naturall...