Cunning folk and familiar spirits : shamanistic visionary traditions in early modern British witchcraft and magic / Emma Wilby.

Brighton : Sussex Academic Press, [2011]

xvi, 317 pages : illustrations. ; 24 cm

"First published 2005, reprinted 2009, 2010 and 2011, in Great Britain by Sussex Academic Press".

Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-302) and index.

A harsh and enchanted world -- Cunning folk and witches -- The magical use of spirits -- Human and spirit : the meeting -- The working relationship -- Renunciation and pact -- Demon and fairy : the interface -- The shaman's calling -- Spirit worlds and high gods -- Phantasticks and phantasms -- Psychosis or spirituality? -- The unrecognised mystics -- Greedigut and the Angel Gabriel -- The freedom of magic.