Here the oldest roots of European concepts of witchcraft and magic are surveyed, examining magical incantations and rituals against witchcraft in Mesopotamia, attitudes to it in …
The end of the eighteenth century saw the end of the witch trials everywhere. This volume charts the processes and reasons for the decriminalisation of witchcraft but also …
Between the age of St. Augustine and the sixteenth century reformations magic continued to be both a matter of popular practice and of learned inquiry. This volume deals with its …