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Let\u2019s say you want to study witchcraft in Early Modern Europe. Where would you look for resources?
\nStep 1: Find synonyms from\u00a0Oxford Reference Online<\/a>\u00a0(it contains a bunch of thesauruses).<\/p>\n

witchcraft noun
\nsorcery , (black) magic , witching , witchery , wizardry , thaumaturgy , spells , incantations ; Wicca ; Irish pishogue .
\n(From The Oxford Paperback Thesaurus in English Dictionaries & Thesauruses)<\/p>\n

witchcraft noun
\nwitchery , sorcery , black art\/magic , magic , necromancy , wizardry , occultism , the occult , sortilege , thaumaturgy , wonder-working.
\n(From The Oxford American Thesaurus of Current English in English Dictionaries & Thesauruses)
\nStep 2: Databases<\/p>\n

Academic Search Premier<\/a>\u2014can use this for most things<\/p>\n

Historical Abstracts\/America: History and Life<\/a>\u2014search these two databases together to pick up the Salem stuff of 1692<\/p>\n

Wilson OmniFile<\/a>\u2014includes lots of important content, especially for the popular and scholarly literature between 1900 and 1950<\/p>\n

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
\n
\nInternational Medieval Bibliography<\/a>\u2014main source for medieval history<\/p>\n

JSTOR<\/a>\u2014will find plenty here<\/p>\n

Gale Virtual Reference Library<\/a>–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<\/p>\n

Oxford Reference Online<\/a>\u2014all kinds of good stuff here<\/p>\n

Diamond: Library Catalog<\/a>\u2014find books at Temple<\/p>\n

WorldCat<\/a>\u2014find books outside of Temple<\/p>\n

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
\n
\nProject Muse<\/a>
\nLike most things regarding research, there\u2019s a ton of other stuff, but the above sources would at least get you started
\n
\n—Fred Rowland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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