A popular history of witchcraft
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A popular history of witchcraft
（Routledge library editions, . Witchcraft ; v. 8）
Routledge, 2011, c1937
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Reprint. Originally published: London : K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1937
Includes index
ISBN for sub ser.: 9780415619271
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Description
This is a comprehensive guide to the practices of witchcraft from their inception to the present day. Summers argues that all witchcraft is essentially the same, regardless of geographical location. He examines the practices of the cult in great detail, and its historical progression, within the context of the 1736 Repeal Act of George II.
Table of Contents
- 1. On the Practice and Profession of Witchcraft
- Of the contract
- And of the Familiar 2. Of the Practice of Witchcraft
- Of the Malice and Mischief of Witches
- Of the Devil's Mark
- And of the Grimoire 3. Of the Witch Covens and their Grand Masters
- Of their Journey to the Sabbat
- And of the Sabbat Orgy 4. Of the Black Mass
- And of the Loves of Incubi and Succubi 5. Part 1 - Of English Witchcraft from the Beginning until the Repeal of the Law, 1736 5. Part 2 - Of English Witchcraft from the Passing of the Statute of 1736 until the Present Day
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