978-0-7735-3360-8 May 2008
In her introduction to Making Witches, Barbara Rieti notes the presence of witchcraft as an offense in a 1729 document appointing justices of the peace to Newfoundland. This is a comment about the times rather than the island in question. Witchcraft as a legal reality was soon to be phased out both in Britain and in Newfoundland which, until the nineteenth century, drew both its legal system and its meagre administration from Britain.
