The social regulatory function of witchcraft prosecutions in early modern England and Scotland (1566–1720) is examined in this chapter through a discussion of the normative behavioural standards presented in contemporary witchcraft pamphlets. Elias’s processual rejection of the individualism and holism binary is utilised to analyse how accused witches were simultaneously embedded in networks of interpersonal relations and vulnerable to individual agency. Through the concept of life and death interdependencies, witchcraft accusations are shown to have both mirrored and reinforced normative behavioural expectations within communities, particularly around gift exchange, charity, and reciprocity. Bryan Turner’s concept of warrior charisma has also been adapted to explain how charismatic individuals, such as witchfinders like Matthew Hopkins and judges like Sir Matthew Hale, exploited fragile bureaucratic processes to pursue personal agendas. The pamphlets reveal how poverty and social exclusion created dangerous cycles whereby traditional forms of community support were denied to suspected witches, who were believed to retaliate through supernatural means. The vulnerability of emergent state mechanisms to individual exploitation is therefore understood as reflecting incomplete civilizing processes, where competing gravitational centres of religious and gender relations disrupted longer chains of interdependencies, ultimately revealing the fragility of social solidarity during significant religious and economic transformation.