arch-defender

Updated: June 2, 2025

For the rest of his life this psychic experimenter fought a literary war over this case with those who made fun of it. While we cannot prove it, we may guess with some confidence that this episode was the beginning of the special interest in the supernatural upon Glanvill's part which was later to make him the arch-defender of the witchcraft superstition in his generation.

Wallace Notestein - A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718