CONTENTS // List of figures page vi // Preface and acknowledgements jx // Introduction j // 1 Invisible men: the historian and the male witch 25 // 2 Secondary targets? Male witches on trial 43 // 3 Tortured confessions: agency and selfhood at stake 65 // 4 Literally unthinkable? Demonological descriptions // of male witches 95 // 5 Conceptual webs: the gendering of witchcraft 118 // Conclusion and afterword 151 // Appendix Johannes Junius: Bamberg’s famous // male witch 259 // Bibliography ]07 // Index 187 // [v]