Witchcraft
Material type:
TextCarbondale, IL Southern Illinois University Press c1981Description: x, 166p.; bibliog. notes; indexContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0809310155
- BF1566 .H67
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Ed. by Beatrice R. Moore.
1 Introduction to witchcraft. 2 Satan. 3 Origins: Biblical, classical, patristic. 4 The development of the orthodox position. 5 The triumph of orthodoxy: laws, texts, trials. 6 The anthropological position. 7 The psychological school. 8 The pharmacological school: witchcraft and drugs. 9 Salem. 10 Occultists and transcendentalists: witchcraft today
'...This book then does not pretend to be an exhaustive treatment of any aspect of this area, but a guide which if used conscientiously will take the student into any such area, as deeply as he wishes to go. Because witchcraft...is both a discipline and a story, this book will not be confined to a single approach to its subject. Witchcraft is an historical phenomenon, with origins in the earliest periods fo human culture, and succeeding developments in Babylon, Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome, as well as mediaeval and Renaissance Europe, not to mention anciient and modern Asia, Africa, and the Americas....'
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