Witchcraft and Black Magic de Montague Summers

Witchcraft and Black Magic

Montague Summers

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 feb 2012

Intriguing, thoroughly researched volume provides expert historical view of demonology and the occult, drawing information from the Bible, literary classics, personal memoirs, correspondence, and court records. Scholarly, yet highly readable study defines witchcraft, then examines ceremonial practices, the casting of spells and conjuring, celebration of the Black Mass, and much more. A masterfully written work for anyone interested in supernatural phenomena, this book has been hailed by critic H. L. Mencken as "learned, honest, and amusing."

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Cuprins

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

Notă biografică

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.