Books like Living witchcraft by Allen Scarboro

Drawing Down the Moon offers a comprehensive, researcher‑authored history of Neo‑Pagan practice in the United States, documenting rituals, beliefs, and diverse practitioners from the early 1980s onward.

Salem Possessed traces the human passions that built the 1692 witch trials, revealing the men and women who spun and became entangled in Salem’s web of suspicion.

Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives, the book recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centered on the benandanti. These men and women regarded themselves as professional anti-witches, who (in dream-like states) apparently fought ritual battles against witches and wizards, to protect their villages and harvests. If they won, the harvest would be good, if they lost, there would be famine. The inquisitors tried to fit them into their pre-existing images of the witches' sabbat. The result of this cultural clash which lasted over a century, was the slow metamorphosis of the benandanti into their enemies - the witches. The author shows clearly how this transformation of the popular notion of witchcraft was manipulated by the Inquisitors, and disseminated all over Europe and even to the New World. The peasants' fragmented and confused testimony reaches us with immediacy, enabling the reader to identify a level of popular belief which constitutes a valuable witness for the reconstruction of the peasant way of thinking of this age.

An ethnographic examination of witchcraft’s historical and contemporary transformations, illuminating its ties to goddess worship, neopagan practice, and feminist thought.

John Demos’s study examines 17th‑century New England witchcraft trials beyond Salem, using case histories and psychological analysis to place them in their social and cultural context.