Witches
Witches

Author: T. C. Lethbridge

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0415604605

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Clues to T.C. Lethbridgeâe(tm)s books lie in their subtitles. Witches: Investigating an Ancient Religion is no exception. In his study of the old pagan gods of Britain, Lethbridge believed that witch cults had their roots in prehistory and eventually became a religion of the suppressed classes.Similarities between eastern and ancient western religions provided him with evidence of ancient collusion. He believed Britainâe(tm)s island status acted as a filter for external inflences and ideas. No belief on the continent ever arrived intact which made the study of British customs so intriguing.His study of Dianic belief and the transmigration of souls led him to believe in a universal, controlling intelligence. He linked the concept of the evolving mind with the Laws of Karma, the Avatars and other religious teachings of the world and concluded that Druidic belief was not a million miles away from modern psychical research.

Witches (RLE Witchcraft)
Witches (RLE Witchcraft)

Author: T C Lethbridge

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-23

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1136740325

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Clues to T.C. Lethbridge’s books lie in their subtitles. Witches: Investigating an Ancient Religion is no exception. In his study of the old pagan gods of Britain, Lethbridge believed that witch cults had their roots in prehistory and eventually became a religion of the suppressed classes.Similarities between eastern and ancient western religions provided him with evidence of ancient collusion. He believed Britain’s island status acted as a filter for external inflences and ideas. No belief on the continent ever arrived intact which made the study of British customs so intriguing.His study of Dianic belief and the transmigration of souls led him to believe in a universal, controlling intelligence. He linked the concept of the evolving mind with the Laws of Karma, the Avatars and other religious teachings of the world and concluded that Druidic belief was not a million miles away from modern psychical research.

Four Centuries of Witch Beliefs (RLE Witchcraft)
Four Centuries of Witch Beliefs (RLE Witchcraft)

Author: R. T. Davies

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2012-05-23

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 113673998X

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Originally published in 1947, it is the essential purpose of this book to investigate attitudes of leading Elizabethan and Stuart statesmen, ask whether witchcraft was of any importance in seventeenth-century English history, or even influenced the Great Rebellion. The reader is placed in possession of the more pertinent passages from the arguments used to support or discredit belief in witchcraft.

A Popular History of Witchcraft (RLE Witchcraft)
A Popular History of Witchcraft (RLE Witchcraft)

Author: Montague Summers

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-23

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1136740198

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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.

Godly Zeal and Furious Rage (RLE Witchcraft)
Godly Zeal and Furious Rage (RLE Witchcraft)

Author: Geoffrey Robert Quaife

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-23

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1136740252

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Though it is clearly an exceptionally important part of popular culture, witchcraft has generated a variety of often contradictory interpretations, starting from widely differing premises about the nature of witchcraft, its social role and the importance of higher theology as well as more popular beliefs. This work offers a conspectus of historical work on witchcraft in Europe, and shows how many trends converged to form the figure of the witch, and varied from one part of Europe to another.

Witch Hunting and Witch Trials (RLE Witchcraft)
Witch Hunting and Witch Trials (RLE Witchcraft)

Author: C L'Estrange Ewen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1136740058

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Originally published in 1929, the author presents a formidable collection of facts, brought together in a scholarly manner. This is an examination of the general history of witchcraft, its changing laws and legal procedures, as well as methods of interrogation and punishment. This book must be considered an essential reference work for every student of witch lore.

European Witch Trials (RLE Witchcraft)
European Witch Trials (RLE Witchcraft)

Author: Richard Kieckhefer

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2012-04-27

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1136807594

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In popular tradition witches were either practitioners of magic or people who were objectionable in some way, but for early European courts witches were heretics and worshippers of the Devil. This study concentrates on the period between 1300 and 1500 when ideas about witchcraft were being formed and witch-hunting was gathering momentum. It is concerned with distinguishing between the popular and learned ideas of witchcraft. The author has developed his own methodology for distinguishing popular from learned concepts, which provides adequate substantiation for the acceptance of some documents and the rejection of others. This distinction is followed by an analysis of the contents of folk tradition regarding witchcraft, the most basic feature of which is its emphasis on sorcery, including bodily harm, love magic, and weather magic, rather than diabolism. The author then shows how and why learned traditions became superimposed on popular notions – how people taken to court for sorcery were eventually convicted on the further charge of devil worship. The book ends with a description of the social context of witch accusations and witch trials.

Four Centuries of Witch Beliefs (RLE Witchcraft)
Four Centuries of Witch Beliefs (RLE Witchcraft)

Author: R. T. Davies

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-23

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1136739971

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Originally published in 1947, it is the essential purpose of this book to investigate attitudes of leading Elizabethan and Stuart statesmen, ask whether witchcraft was of any importance in seventeenth-century English history, or even influenced the Great Rebellion. The reader is placed in possession of the more pertinent passages from the arguments used to support or discredit belief in witchcraft.

Witch Hunting and Witch Trials (RLE Witchcraft)
Witch Hunting and Witch Trials (RLE Witchcraft)

Author: C. L'Estrange Ewen

Publisher:

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9780203818992

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Originally published in 1929, the author presents a formidable collection of facts, brought together in a scholarly manner. This is an examination of the general history of witchcraft, its changing laws and legal procedures, as well as methods of interrogation and punishment. This book must be considered an essential reference work for every student of witch lore.

A Popular History of Witchcraft
A Popular History of Witchcraft

Author: Montague Summers

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2020-07-14

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1528763866

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First published in 1937, this volume offers an overview of witchcraft and its practices and history, written by Montague Summers. Augustus Montague Summers (1880 – 1948) was an English clergyman and author most famous for his studies on vampires, witches and werewolves—all of which he believed to be very much real. He also wrote the first English translation of the infamous 15th-century witch hunter's manual, the “Malleus Maleficarum”, in 1928. Contents include: “Of the Practice and Profession of Witchcraft; of the Contact; and the Familiar”, “Of the Practice of Witchcraft; of the Malice and Mischief of Witches; of the Devi's Mark; and of the Grimore”, “Of the Witch Covens and their Grand Masters; of their Journey to the Sabbat; and of the Sabbat Orgy”, etc. Other notable works by this author include: “Witchcraft and Black Magic” (1946) and “The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism” (1947). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.