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Narratives of Sorcery and Magic
From the Most Authentic Sources
2 Volume Set

Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge

Author: Thomas Wright

Date Published: February 2012
availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
format: Multiple copy pack
isbn: 9781108044202

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The English historian and antiquary Thomas Wright (1810–70) co-founded and joined a number of antiquarian and literary societies. He was greatly interested in Old English, Middle English and Anglo-Norman texts, and in the 1840s and 1850s he published widely within these areas. Gradually his focus shifted to the archaeology of Roman Britain and to Anglo-Saxon cemeteries. Although much of Wright's research has been completely superseded, his work is still considered worth consulting, as he collected material not readily available elsewhere. This 1851 publication is testimony to Wright's interest in folklore, sorcery and legend. Volume 1 deals with European sorcery, and sixteenth-century English characters such as Dr John Dee; it also examines the legend of Dr Faustus. Volume 2 surveys the seventeenth century, and includes such important instances as the alleged demonic possession of the Ursuline nuns of Loudun, and the witchcraft hysteria which led to the Salem Witch Trials.

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Product details
- Date Published: February 2012
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108044202
- length: 716 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 40 mm
- weight: 0.97kg
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
Volume 1:
1. Introduction
2. Story of the lady Alice Kyteler
3. Further political usage of the belief in sorcery. The Templars
4. Sorcery in France. The citizens of Arras
5. The lord of Mirebeau and Pierre d'Estaing the alchemist
6. The earlier medieval type of the sorcerer. Virgil the enchanter
7. The later medieval types of the magician. Friar Bacon and Dr Faustus
8. Sorcery in Germany in the fifteenth century. The Malleus Maleficarum
9. Witchcraft in Scotland in the sixteenth century
10. King James and the witches of Lothian
11. Magic in England during the age of the Reformation
12. The English magicians. Dr Dee and his followers
13. The witches of Warboys
14. The poetry of witchcraft
15. Witchcraft in France in the sixteenth century
16. Pierre de Lancre and the witches of Labourd
17. Magic in Spain. The auto-da-fé of Logrono. Volume 2:
18. Adventures of Doctor Torralva
19. Trial of the Earl and Countess of Somerset
20. La maréchale d'Ancre
21. Louis Gaufridi
22. The Ursulines of Loudun
23. The Lancashire witches
24. Witchcraft in England during the earlier part of the seventeenth century
25. Witchcraft under the Commonwealth. Matthew Hopkins the Witch-finder
26. Witchcraft in Germany, in the earlier part of the seventeenth-century
27. The witches of Scotland under King James after his accession to the English throne
28. Confessions of Isobel Gowdie
29. The witches of Mohra in Sweden
30. Sir Matthew Hale and Chief Justice Holt
31. The doings of Satan in New England
32. Conclusion.
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