William Howitt
December 18, 1792 – March 3, 1879 (aged 86)
Birth place: Heanor, Derbyshire, England, Kingdom of Great Britain
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Nominally comprehensive works by Howitt include A Popular History of Priestcraft (1833), The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe (1852), and The History of the Supernatural (1863).
William Howitt's 1854 translation The History of Magic by Joseph Ennemoser (from the German) contains "an Appendix of the most remarkable and best authenticated stories of Apparitions, [... long list ...] selected by Mary Howitt" ().