The history of witchcraft and demonologySummers, Montague
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The history of witchcraft and demonology
Summers, Montague
Demonology; Demonology -- History; Witchcraft; Witchcraft -- History
There are many general French studies of Witchcraft of the greatest
value, amongst which we may name such standard works as Antoine-Louis
Daugis, _Traité sur la magie, le sortilège, les possessions,
obsessions et maléfices_, 1732; Jules Garinet, _Histoire de la Magie
en France depuis le commencement de la monarchie jusqu’à nos jours_,
1818; Michelet’s famous _La Sorcière_; Alfred Maury, _La Magie et
l’Astrologie_, 3rd edition, 1868; L’Abbé Lecanu, _Histoire de Satan_;
Jules Baissac, _Les grands Jours de la Sorcellerie_, 1890; Theodore de
Cauzons, _La Magie et la Sorcellerie en France_, 4 vols., 1910, etc.
In German we have Eberhard Hauber’s _Bibliotheca Magica_; Roskoff’s
_Geschichte des Teufels_, 1869; Soldan’s _Geschichte der Hexenprozesse_
(neu bearbeitet von Dr. Heinrich Heppe), 1880; Friedrich Leitschuch’s
_Beitræge zur Geschichte des Hexenwesens in Franken_, 1883; Johan
Dieffenbach’s _Der Hexenwahn vor und nach der Glaubensspaltung in
Deutschland_, 1886; Schreiber’s _Die Hexenprozesse im Breisgau_; Ludwig
Rapp’s _Die Hexenprozesse und ihre Gegner aus Tirol_; Joseph Hansen’s
_Quellen und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des Hexenwahns_, 1901; and
very many more admirably documented studies.
In England the best of the older books must be recommended with necessary
reservations. Thomas Wright’s _Narratives of Sorcery and Magic_, 2 vols.,
1851, is to be commended as the work of a learned antiquarian who often
referred to original sources, but it is withal sketchy and can hardly
satisfy the careful scholar. Some exceptionally good writing and sound,
clear, thinking are to be met with in Dr. F. G. Lee’s _The Other World_,
2 vols., 1875; _More Glimpses of the World Unseen_, 1878; _Glimpses in
the Twilight_, 1885; and _Sight and Shadows_, 1894, all of which deserve
to be far more widely known, since they well repay an unhurried and
repeated perusal.
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