‘A Hellish Knot of Witches’: a regional approach to early-modern witchcraft beliefs and accusations in and around Selwood Forest

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List of publications submitted in the order published

1) Pickering, Andrew, ‘Witchcraft and evidence in a seventeenth century Somerset parish’, The Local Historian: Journal of the British Association for Local History, Volume 48, Number 1, January 2018, 30-40.

2) Pickering, Andrew, ‘Great News from the West of England: witchcraft and strange vomiting in a Somerset village’, Magic, Witchcraft and Ritual (University of Pennsylvania), Volume 13, Issue 1, Spring 2018, 70-97.

3) Pickering, Andrew, ‘The Devil’s Cloyster: putting Selwood Forest on England’s seventeenth-century witchcraft map’, in Nate, R., and Wiedemann J. (eds.), Remembering Places: Perspectives from Scholarship and the Arts (Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt: Königshausen & Neumann, 2019), 35-54.

4) Pickering, Andrew, The Witches of Selwood: Witchcraft Belief and Accusation in Seventeenth-Century Somerset (Gloucester: The Hobnob Press, 2021).