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This study examines the relationship between élite and popular beliefs in witchcraft, magic and superstition in England, analyzing such beliefs against the background of political, religious and social upheaval characteristic of the Civil War, Interregnum and Restoration periods.
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After discussing the terminology of talismanic magic (or necromancy) and its position in divisions of science in the Middle Ages, this book traces the history of talismanic texts from the Classical period through the Arabic world to the Latin Middle Ages.
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Magic and divination in early Islam encompassed a wide range of practices. The studies here are concerned with the pre-Islamic antecedents of such practices and with... Læs mere
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The story of the beliefs and practices called 'magic' starts in ancient Iran, Greece and Rome, before entering its crucial Christian phase in... Læs mere
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Published in 1832 at the request of Sir Walter Scott, this book provides natural explanations for the allegedly supernatural phenomena so popular... Læs mere
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Joseph Ennemoser (1787–1854) was an Tyrolean doctor, who was a forerunner of Freud in his belief in the connection between the mind and physical health: his interest in psychology... Læs mere
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Éliphas Lévi (1810–75) was instrumental in the revival of Western occultism in the nineteenth century. This posthumous... Læs mere
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Published in French in 1854, Éliphas Lévi's Dogme et rituel de la haute magie was translated into English by occult historian Arthur Waite in 1896. In this... Læs mere
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This was originally a two volume set which is now bound as one. Here is presented an investigation of the nature of the... Læs mere
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The Witchcraft Reader offers a wide range of historical perspectives on the subject of witchcraft in a single, accessible volume, exploring the enduring hold that it has on human imagination.