The history of witchcraft and demonology
The History of Witchcraft and Demonology, published by Montague Summers in 1926, surveys the European belief in witches from antiquity through the great persecutions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Summers describes the witch as heretic and as member of a secret society, the pact with the devil, the sabbat and its rites, the familiar spirits, the use of spells and charms, the witch in Holy Writ and in the writings of the Church, and the treatment of witchcraft in English and French drama. What sets the book apart is its author's position: a Catholic scholar and clergyman, Summers wrote as a believer who held that witchcraft had been real and the inquisitors broadly right. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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