Introduction / Yvonne Jocks
The wicked witch: Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 1 / William Shakespeare ; The leather funnel / Arthur Conan Doyle ; Witches' hollow / H.P. Lovecraft ; The sorcerers / W.B. Yeats ; The horned women / Lady Wilde ; April in Paris / Ursula K. Le Guin ; Can the double murder? / H.P. Blavatsky ; Bridget Bishop / Cotton Mather ; A witch trial at Mount Holly / Ben Franklin ; General Andrew Jackson and the bell witch / M.V. Ingram
Witchcraft as empowerment: The night / Emily Bronte ; Snatcher / Dean Koontz ; The tea room beasts / P.N. Elrod ; The witch's ballad / Doreen Valiente ; Feathertop / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; The witch's steed / Ambrose Bierce ; The goddess in the ice / Harlan Ellison ; Figure of the witch / Erica Jong ; Fleur / Louise Erdrich ; Toads and diamonds / Charles Perrault ; A pair of eyes; or, modern magic / Louisa May Alcott ; Exorcism / Ray Bradbury ; Nightside / Mercedes Lackey ; The witch / Anton Chekhov.
The nature witch: The witches' creed / Doreen Valiente ; The sorcerer's apprentice / Brothers Grimm ; The humming of stars and bees and waves / Anita Endrezze ; Witchcraft was hung, in history / Emily Dickinson ; The spell / David Gerrold ; The Christmas witch / Rosemary Edghill ; The strange people / Louise Erdrich ; Reunion / Kathryn Ptacek ; The witch's daughter / Mary Wilkins Freeman ; Shall earth no more inspire thee / Emily Bronte ; The winter solstice / Evelyn Vaughn ; The witch / Mary Coleridge ; The very strange house next door / Shirley Jackson ; Smoke / Erica Jong.