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Magic publications are books and periodicals which are created on the subject of magic. They include reviews of new equipment and techniques, announcements of upcoming events, interviews with prominent magicians, announcements of awards, and columns on such subjects as the history and ethics of the art of magic.
This category is for articles on history books with witchcraft as a topic. Pages in category "History books about witchcraft" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
His book Magick, Liber ABA, Book 4, is a lengthy treatise on magic in which he which also presents his own system of Western occult practice, synthesised from many sources, including Yoga, Hermeticism, medieval grimoires, contemporary magical theories from writers like Eliphas Levi and Helena Blavatsky, and his own original contributions. It ...
The Discoverie of Witchcraft and The First Part of Clever and Pleasant Inventions by Jean Prevost, both published in 1584, are considered the seminal works of magic. [3] Scot's volume became an exhaustive encyclopædia of contemporary beliefs about witchcraft, spirits, alchemy, [4] magic, and legerdemain, as well as attracting widespread attention to his scepticism on witchcraft.
The Formicarius, written 1436–1438 by Johannes Nider during the Council of Florence and first printed in 1475, is the second book ever printed to discuss witchcraft (the first book being Alphonso de Spina's Fortalitium Fidei [1]). Nider dealt specifically with witchcraft in the fifth section of the book.
The Galdrabók (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈkaltraˌpouːk], Book of Magic) is an Icelandic grimoire dated to c. 1600. [1] It is a small manuscript containing a collection of 47 spells and sigils/staves. [2] The grimoire was compiled by four people, possibly starting in the late 16th century and going on until the mid-17th century.
Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays; Magic, Witchcraft and the Otherworld; Magic: History, Theory, Practice; The Magical Revival; Magick (Book 4) Magick Without Tears; The Magus (Barrett book) Man, Myth & Magic (encyclopedia) Mastering Witchcraft; The Morning of the Magicians; Mysterious New Mexico
His work on witchcraft was The Discoverie of Witchcraft, wherein the Lewde dealing of Witches and Witchmongers is notablie detected, in sixteen books … whereunto is added a Treatise upon the Nature and Substance of Spirits and Devils, 1584. Scot enumerates 212 authors whose works in Latin he had consulted, and twenty-three authors who wrote ...