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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... published in 1664. Earlier , in 1572 , a scholar from Heidelberg , Thomas Erastus , published his Explanations . They were directed mainly against Paracelsus . Thomas Erastus is the prototype of learned sterility and quarrel- someness ...
... published in 1664. Earlier , in 1572 , a scholar from Heidelberg , Thomas Erastus , published his Explanations . They were directed mainly against Paracelsus . Thomas Erastus is the prototype of learned sterility and quarrel- someness ...
Page 196
... published anony- mously in 1631 his Cautio Criminalis . Scarcely thirty years old , he was asked by the Bishop of Würzburg why his hair had turned grey . " Through grief , ' he replied , ' over the many witches whom I have prepared for ...
... published anony- mously in 1631 his Cautio Criminalis . Scarcely thirty years old , he was asked by the Bishop of Würzburg why his hair had turned grey . " Through grief , ' he replied , ' over the many witches whom I have prepared for ...
Page 307
... published a venomous booklet : France Deceived by Magicians and Demonolators . Many of the eighteenth - century magicians and prophets are branded in Fiard's work , and Descremps does not escape the invective . " These automata cannot ...
... published a venomous booklet : France Deceived by Magicians and Demonolators . Many of the eighteenth - century magicians and prophets are branded in Fiard's work , and Descremps does not escape the invective . " These automata cannot ...
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | 7 |
FOREWORD | xvii |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | xxi |
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