Showing posts with label Magical Beliefs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Magical Beliefs. Show all posts

Westward Ho

Caitlin and John Matthews. The Western Way. Arkana, 1985.
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Ghosts, Witchcraft, Demons and Books of Magic

Daniel Ogden. Night's Black Agents: Witches, Wizards and the Dead in the Ancient World, Hambledon Continuum, 2008.

Jeffrey R Watt. The Scourge of Demons: Possession, Lust and Witchcraft in a Seventeenth Century Italian Convent. University of Rochester Press, 2009.

Lynn Wood Mollenauer. Strange Relations: Magic, Poison and Sacrilege in Louis XIVs France. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. (Magic in History Series)
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Fallen Bodies

Dyan Elliott. Fallen Bodies; Pollution, Sexuality and Demonology in the Middle Ages. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
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That's all very well in practice, but how does it work out in theory?

Christopher I. Lehrich. The Occult Mind: Magic in Theory and Practice. Cornell University Press, 2007.
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Against the Modern World

Mark Sedgwick. Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press, 2004.

Talking Stick, Talking Sense

Amanda Prouten and Caroline Robertson. Talking Stick Magickal Journal. 
Issue 1, Volume 2. Talking Stick Publications, 1998.

Wizards

P. G. Maxwell-Stuart. Wizards: a History. Tempus, 2004.

Ancient teachers?

Graham Hancock. Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind. Century, 2005

Modern Demons

Malcolm McGrath. Demons of the Modern World. Prometheus Books, 2002.
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Cunning Folk

Owen Davies. Cunning-Folk: Popular Magic in English History. Hambledon and London, 2003.


This is the first full length treatment of the English 'cunning folk', the village herbalist, astrologer, cow doctor, treasure finder, love token maker, and pre-eminently witch finder and de-speller. 
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