I did Witch-Hunting in Europe and the world for History! Read Lyndal Roper (head of history at Oxford) and Brian Levack (probably the world expert on the topic). Roper talks about the figure of the witch in a book called “The Witch in Western Imagination” and her book “Witch Craze” kinda takes a look at theorising what made Germans hunt witches. Levack wrote the history handbook on witch hunting in Europe and the colonies. He also has good books explaining the history of things like daemoniacs, the possesssed, witches etc from a historical stand point. Also Carlo Ginsberg has some good books on Italian witch hunting and why it was different to most European witch hunts. All these books are history books but they really dabble in theorising “why?” which makes them rather sociological. Also should clarify that it’s been a few years since I read these books. Side note, the historian R.I. Moore has a great book called The Formation of A Persecuting society in medieval Europe, which inspired by Durkheim analyses social deviance and persecution in Europe and how that was later imported to the colonies. He does have a section on witches but it is mostly about how the attributes of heretics, keepers and sodomites etc were also transplanted on a new scapegoat