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Defining 'magic' is a maddening task. Over the last century numerous philosophers, anthropologists, historians, and theologians have attempted to pin ...
A History of Magic Books
Grimoires are books of spells that were first recorded in the Ancient Middle East and which have developed and spread over the ensuing millennia....
'Paganism' is an evocative word that, even today, conjures up deep-seated emotions and prejudices. Until recently, it was primarily a derogatory term ...
Most studies of witchcraft and magic have been concerned with the era of the witch trials, a period that officially came to an end in Britain with the...
Magic, Divination, and Faith during the First World War
A Supernatural War reveals the surprising stories of extraordinary people in a world caught up with the promise of occult powers. It was a commonly ex...
A Social History of Ghosts
'The Haunted' is the first truly comprehensive social history of ghosts. Using fascinating and entertaining examples, Davies places the history of gho...
America Bewitched is the first major history of witchcraft in America - from the Salem witch trials of 1692 to the present day. The infamous Salem tri...
The only serious study of witchcraft and magic from 1736 to 1951. Brings together matters ranging from upper class spiritualism to rural witchcraft in...
Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early t...
The Victorian Trials of Dove and the Wizard
In 1856 William Dove, a young tenant farmer, was tried and executed for the poisoning of his wife Harriet. The trial might have been a straightforward...
Local practitioners of magic, providing small-scale but valued service to the community, cunning-folk were far more representative of magical practice...
Witchcraft and Magic in Nineteenth-Century Somerset
The author of the Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic unveils the history of witches in one of southwest Englandโs most spiritual sit...
Popular Magic in English History
Local practitioners of magic, providing small-scale but valued services to the community, cunning-folk were far more representative of magical practic...
Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the Asylum
The nineteenth century was a time of extraordinary scientific innovation, but with the rise of psychiatry, faiths and popular beliefs were often seen ...
How Science and Technology Will Transform Our Lives in the Next Twenty Years
A fascinating look at near-future advances, inventions, products, services, and everyday conveniences that will change how we live and work. Marvin Ce...
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An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells
A copiously illustrated global history of magic books, from ancient papyri to pulp paperbacks Grimoires, textbooks of magic and occult knowledge, have...
With Notes
The Promise and the Future Impact of Trying to Live Forever
To live forever is one of man's oldest aspirations--and it might be become a reality. With advances in medicine and new gene research, human life span...
Our Life at the Turn of the 21st Century
Vol. 1 - Part 1
With the Statutes, and the Orders, Regulations, and Instructions, Issued Pursuant Thereto : and a Selection of Schemes
With Some Short Notes Thereon : Chiefly Intended as a Guide to "Tudor's Leading Cases on Conveyancing," and "White and Tudor's Leading Cases in Equity."
Reveals changing perceptions of ghosts at different social levels from the Reformation through to the twentieth century in Britain and America. This f...
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875....
Vol. 2
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877....
Vol. 1 - Part 2
Ritual and Re-enchantment in Post-Medieval Structures
This book redresses popular interpretations of concealed objects, enigmatically discovered within the fabric of post-medieval buildings. A wide variet...
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881....
First published in 1854, this practitioner guide provides thorough analysis of the law relating to charities and their administration, including taxat...