Introduction : expanding the analysis of traditional belief / Kathryn A. Edwards -- Dangerous spirits : shapeshifting, apparitions, and fantasy in Lorraine witchcraft trials / Robin Briggs -- Living with the dead : ghosts in early modern Bavaria / David Lederer -- Reformed or recycled? : possession and exorcism in the sacramental life of early modern France / Sarah Ferber -- Revisiting El Encubierto : navigating between visions of Heaven and Hell on Earth / Sara T. Nalle -- Worms and the Jews : Jews, magic, and community in seventeenth-century Worms / Dean Phillip Bell -- Asmodea : a nun-witch in eighteenth-century Tuscany / Anne Jacobson Schutte -- When witches became false : séducteurs and crédules confront the Paris police at the beginning of the eighteenth century / Ulrike Krampl -- God killed Saul : Heinrich Bullinger and Jacob Ruef on the power of the devil / Bruce Gordon -- Such an impure, cruel, and savage beast : images of the werewolf in demonological works / Nicole Jacques-Lefèvre -- Charcot, Freud, and the demons / H. C. Erik Midelfort