A Popular History of Witchcraft
Title | A Popular History of Witchcraft PDF eBook |
Author | Montague Summers |
Publisher | Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | 277 |
Release | 2020-07-14 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 1528763866 |
First published in 1937, this volume offers an overview of witchcraft and its practices and history, written by Montague Summers. Augustus Montague Summers (1880 – 1948) was an English clergyman and author most famous for his studies on vampires, witches and werewolves—all of which he believed to be very much real. He also wrote the first English translation of the infamous 15th-century witch hunter's manual, the “Malleus Maleficarum”, in 1928. Contents include: “Of the Practice and Profession of Witchcraft; of the Contact; and the Familiar”, “Of the Practice of Witchcraft; of the Malice and Mischief of Witches; of the Devi's Mark; and of the Grimore”, “Of the Witch Covens and their Grand Masters; of their Journey to the Sabbat; and of the Sabbat Orgy”, etc. Other notable works by this author include: “Witchcraft and Black Magic” (1946) and “The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism” (1947). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
A Popular History of Witchcraft (RLE Witchcraft)
Title | A Popular History of Witchcraft (RLE Witchcraft) PDF eBook |
Author | Montague Summers |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 312 |
Release | 2012-05-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1136740198 |
This is a comprehensive guide to the practices of witchcraft from their inception to the present day. Summers argues that all witchcraft is essentially the same, regardless of geographical location. He examines the practices of the cult in great detail, and its historical progression, within the context of the 1736 Repeal Act of George II.
A Popular History of Witchcraft (RLE Witchcraft)
Title | A Popular History of Witchcraft (RLE Witchcraft) PDF eBook |
Author | Montague Summers |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 311 |
Release | 2012-05-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 113674018X |
This is a comprehensive guide to the practices of witchcraft from their inception to the present day. Summers argues that all witchcraft is essentially the same, regardless of geographical location. He examines the practices of the cult in great detail, and its historical progression, within the context of the 1736 Repeal Act of George II.
Popular Witchcraft
Title | Popular Witchcraft PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Fritscher |
Publisher | Popular Press |
Total Pages | 294 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 9780299203047 |
Popular Witchcraft: Straight from the Witch's Mouth, inspired by the British Gerald Gardner's Witchcraft Today, was the first book to be published on popular American witchcraft and remains the classic survey of white and black magic. Newly revised and updated for twenty-first-century readers, the author--an ordained but marvelously fallen exorcist--tells all about the evil eye, the queer eye, women and witch trials, the Old Religion, magic Christianity, Satanism, and New Age self-help. Jack Fritscher sifts through legends of sorcery and the twisted history of witchcraft, including the casting of spells and incantations, with a focus on the growing role of witchcraft in popular culture and its mainstream commercialization through popular music, Broadway, Hollywood, and politics. As seriously historical as it is fun to read, there is no other book like it.
European Witch Trials
Title | European Witch Trials PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Kieckhefer |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 190 |
Release | 2023-04-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520320581 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.
Four Centuries of Witch Beliefs (RLE Witchcraft)
Title | Four Centuries of Witch Beliefs (RLE Witchcraft) PDF eBook |
Author | R. T. Davies |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 242 |
Release | 2012-05-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1136739971 |
Originally published in 1947, it is the essential purpose of this book to investigate attitudes of leading Elizabethan and Stuart statesmen, ask whether witchcraft was of any importance in seventeenth-century English history, or even influenced the Great Rebellion. The reader is placed in possession of the more pertinent passages from the arguments used to support or discredit belief in witchcraft.
A History of Magic and Witchcraft
Title | A History of Magic and Witchcraft PDF eBook |
Author | Frances Timbers |
Publisher | Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | 339 |
Release | 2019-05-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1526731827 |
The author of Magic and Masculinity explores the history and development of magic and witchcraft in Western society. Broomsticks, cauldrons, familiars, and spells—magic and witchcraft conjure a vivid picture in our modern-day imagination. While much of our understanding is rooted in superstition and myth, the history of magic and witchcraft offers a window into the past. It illuminates the lives of ordinary people in the past and elucidates the fascinating pop culture of the premodern world. Blowing away folkloric cobwebs, this enlightening new history dispels many misconceptions surrounding witchcraft and magic that we still hold today. From Ancient Greece and Rome to the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, historian Frances Timbers details the impact of Christianity and popular culture in the construction of the figure of the “witch.” The development of demonology and ceremonial magic is combined with the West’s troubled past with magic and witchcraft to chart the birth of modern Wiccan and Neopagan movements in England and North America. Witchcraft is a metaphor for oppression in an age in which persecution is an everyday occurrence somewhere in the world. Fanaticism, intolerance, prejudice, authoritarianism, and religious and political ideologies are never attractive. Beware the witch hunter!