Witchcraft and Black Magic

Witchcraft and Black Magic

by Montague Summers
Witchcraft and Black Magic

Witchcraft and Black Magic

by Montague Summers

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781528772686
Publisher: Obscure Press
Publication date: 10/25/2022
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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
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