Montague Summers

Witchcraft and Black Magic

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Produktbeschreibung

Historical overview of demonology and the occult defines witchcraft and examines ceremonial practices, the casting of spells and conjuring, celebration of the Black Mass, and much more. A masterfully written, highly readable work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dover Publications
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 138mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9780486411255
• ISBN-10: 0486411257
• Artikelnr.: 21963632

Autorenporträt

Augustus Montague Summers (1880-1948) was an English author and clergyman born in Bristol. Despite initially studying to work for the Church of England, Summers converted to Catholicism and worked as a teacher of English and Latin. He's well-known for his studies of the supernatural, and his most notable works are History of Witchcraft and Demonology, 1926, and his 1928 translation of the 15th century manual for witch hunters, the Malleus Maleficarum.

Inhaltsangabe

CHAPTER I What is Witchcraft? How does One become a Witch? The Essential
Pact CHAPTER II "The Familiar, in Human Shape and Animal " How Acquired The
Sacrileges of Witches The Reward of Blood CHAPTER III Witchcraft at
Cambridge and Oxford The Manichee Sorcerers Revolutionary Witchcraft The
Witchcraft of the Templars Witchcraft and Politics CHAPTER IV The Origins
of Witchcraft The Sons of God and the Daughters of Men Who was the First
Witch? Assyrian and Egyptian Witchcraft The Mummies "The "Dianic Cult" "
CHAPTER V The Library of the Witches The Sibylline Books The Grimoires Ie
Grand Albert The Witches' Bible Zekerboni Printed and Manuscript Books of
Spells The Scene of Conjuration described by Restif de la Bretonne CHAPTER
VI The Magus of Francis Barrett Today Ceremonial Magic The Evil Eye Ranks
of Demons Necromancy Evocations Ebenezer Sibly Satanism Today Obeah
Witchcraft in Mauritius CHAPTER VII Sympathetic Magic Wax Images Figurines
The Covens The Grand Master Levitation The Sabbat Incubi and Succubae The
Black Mass