{"id":6678,"date":"2007-07-24T11:26:10","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T11:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libtest\/2007\/07\/24\/resources_for_witchcraft\/"},"modified":"2007-07-24T11:26:10","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T11:26:10","slug":"resources_for_witchcraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/2007\/07\/24\/resources_for_witchcraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources for Witchcraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s say you want to study witchcraft in Early Modern Europe.  Where would you look for resources?    Step 1: Find synonyms from <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.temple.edu:2343\/login?url=http:\/\/www.oxfordreference.com\/\">Oxford Reference Online<\/a> (it contains a bunch of thesauruses).  witchcraft noun  sorcery , (black) magic , witching , witchery , wizardry , thaumaturgy , spells , incantations ; Wicca ; Irish pishogue . (From The Oxford Paperback Thesaurus in English Dictionaries &amp; Thesauruses)  witchcraft noun  witchery , sorcery , black art\/magic , magic , necromancy , wizardry , occultism , the occult , sortilege , thaumaturgy , wonder-working. (From The Oxford American Thesaurus of Current English in English Dictionaries &amp; Thesauruses)   Step 2: Databases  <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.temple.edu:2343\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?profile=ehost&amp;defaultdb=aph\">Academic Search Premier<\/a>\u2014can use this for most things  <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.temple.edu:2343\/login?url=http:\/\/serials.abc-clio.com\/active\/start?_appname=serials&amp;initialdb=AHL,HA\">Historical Abstracts\/America: History and Life<\/a>\u2014search these two databases together to pick up the Salem stuff of 1692  <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.temple.edu:2343\/login?url=http:\/\/vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com\/hww\/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=OMNIFT,ARTAB,ARTR,HSR,EDUR,RGR\">Wilson OmniFile<\/a>\u2014includes lots of important content, especially for the popular and scholarly literature between 1900 and 1950  <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.temple.edu:2343\/login?url=http:\/\/www.oxforddnb.com\/subscribed\/\">Oxford Dictionary of National Biography<\/a>\u2014use this biographical source to search for individuals who in some way were connected to witchcraft, its study, practice, or prosecution.  Amazing source of info on British history <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.temple.edu:2343\/login?url=http:\/\/www.brepolis.net\/login\/online.xml\"> International Medieval Bibliography<\/a>\u2014main source for medieval history  <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.temple.edu:2343\/login?url=http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/cgi-bin\/jstor\/gensearch\">JSTOR<\/a>\u2014will find plenty here  <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.temple.edu:2343\/login?url=http:\/\/infotrac.galegroup.com\/itweb\/temple_main?db=GVRL\">Gale Virtual Reference Library<\/a>&#8211;for encyclopedia articles, New Catholic Encyclopedia might be interesting, also Encyclopedia of Religion, Encyclopedia of European Social History, Europe: 1450-1789, Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World  <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.temple.edu:2343\/login?url=http:\/\/www.oxfordreference.com\/\">Oxford Reference Online<\/a>\u2014all kinds of good stuff here  <a href=\"http:\/\/diamond.temple.edu\/\">Diamond: Library Catalog<\/a>\u2014find books at Temple  <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.temple.edu:2343\/login?url=http:\/\/newfirstsearch.oclc.org\/done=referer;fsip;dbname=WorldCat\">WorldCat<\/a>\u2014find books outside of Temple  <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.temple.edu:2343\/login?url=http:\/\/infotrac.galegroup.com\/itweb\/temple_main?db=ECCO\">Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO)<\/a>\u2014most of the books printed in Britain during the eighteenth century, all online, hard to believe something like this exists <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.temple.edu:2343\/login?url=http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/\"> Project Muse<\/a>   Like most things regarding research, there\u2019s a ton of other stuff, but the above sources would at least get you started <a href=\"http:\/\/library.temple.edu\/about\/directory\/stafflist.jsp?criteria=rowland&amp;type=name&amp;bhcp=1\"> &#8212;Fred Rowland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s say you want to study witchcraft in Early Modern Europe. Where would you look for resources? Step 1: Find synonyms from Oxford Reference Online (it contains a bunch of thesauruses). witchcraft noun sorcery , (black) magic , witching , &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/2007\/07\/24\/resources_for_witchcraft\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[188],"class_list":["post-6678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-sciences","tag-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/805"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}