The History of Magic and the OccultCovers astrology, divination, witchcraft, the Tarot, the Cabala, alchemy, and vampires, from ancient Mesopotamia to eighteenth-century Europe. |
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... carried in a solemn procession . These books were nothing else but the anonymous writings on Egyptian philosophy , the offspring of Greco - Egyptian intercourse . According to Iamblichus , the authors of such works signed them with the ...
... carried in a solemn procession . These books were nothing else but the anonymous writings on Egyptian philosophy , the offspring of Greco - Egyptian intercourse . According to Iamblichus , the authors of such works signed them with the ...
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... carry us to Blokula , ' whereupon ' he ' appeared , in a grey coat and red and blue stockings . ' He had a red beard ... carried them over churches and high walls . Twenty - three witches who confessed freely were burned , and fifteen ...
... carry us to Blokula , ' whereupon ' he ' appeared , in a grey coat and red and blue stockings . ' He had a red beard ... carried them over churches and high walls . Twenty - three witches who confessed freely were burned , and fifteen ...
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... carried from its place by the volubility of our disordered mind than that one of us should be carried by a strange spirit upon a broom staff , flesh and blood as we are , up the shaft of a chimney . Montaigne A good interpretation of ...
... carried from its place by the volubility of our disordered mind than that one of us should be carried by a strange spirit upon a broom staff , flesh and blood as we are , up the shaft of a chimney . Montaigne A good interpretation of ...
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | 7 |
FOREWORD | xvii |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | xxi |
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