"As such, the most important contribution made by The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft is that it engages in contemporary conversations promoted through every chapter that witchcraft and magic are primarily formatted through mediatic normativity. Consequently, illustrations are used as references to the imaginaries embedded in the sometimes-overlapping social climates and cultural differences. In fact, these illustrations complete an already greatly refined and up-to-date history of witches and sorcerers one that pertains to every discipline in the humanities and social sciences concerned with issues of power and alterity."--Reading Religion "As per usual for the series, this volume is thorough in its coverage. From the rise of demonology in the Middle Ages to the appearance of Samantha on Bewitched, the contributors cover a lot of ground." --Booklist.