List of Illustrations

The keep, Belvoir Castle. (By kind permission of The Duke and Duchess of Rutland, © Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, UK/The Bridgeman Art Library)

Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland. (By kind permission of The Duke and Duchess of Rutland)

The interior of St Mary’s Church, Bottesford.

Detail of the tomb, showing the two Manners boys.

A seventeenth-century woodcut showing a witch kissing Satan on the buttocks. (© akg-images)

Witch riding a broomstick. (© Wellcome Library, London)

Le Départ pour le Sabbat, by David Teniers the Younger. (© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin/A. Psille)

The Witches’ Sabbath, by Francisco Goya. (© Museo Lazaro Galdiano, Madrid, Spain/The Bridgeman Art Library)

Woodcut from Newes from Scotland. (© Private Collection/The Bridgeman Art Library)

The title page of Daemonologie. (© The British Library Board/C.95.aa.11)

James I of England and VI of Scotland, after John De Critz the Elder. (© National Portrait Gallery, London)

George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, and family. (© National Portrait Gallery, London)

The hanging of four witches. (© Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

The ‘swimming’ of a witch. (© Wellcome Library, London)

The title page of the contemporary pamphlet telling the story of Joan Flower and her daughters. (© The British Library Board/C.27.b.35)