The Disenchantment of Magic: Spells, Charms, and Superstition in Early European Witchcraft Literature

Historians of European magic and witchcraft have engaged with themes identified as disenchantment. Arguably the two greatest monuments of fifteenth-century witchcraft literature were Johannes Nider's Formicarius [Anthill], the most extensive and influential of several early tracts and treatises on witchcraft produced in the 1430s, and Heinrich Kramer's Malleus maleficarum [Hammer of Witches], the most important late medieval witchcraft treatise.