{"product_id":"2940015517361","title":"THE SUPERSTITIONS OF WITCHCRAFT","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     The Origin, Prevalence, and Variety of Superstition--The\u003cbr\u003e       Belief in Witchcraft the most horrid Form of\u003cbr\u003e       Superstition--Most flourishing in the Sixteenth and\u003cbr\u003e       Seventeenth Centuries--The Sentiments of Addison,\u003cbr\u003e       Blackstone, and the Lawyers of the Eighteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e       upon the Subject--Chaldean and Persian Magic--Jewish\u003cbr\u003e       Witchcraft--Its important Influence on Christian and\u003cbr\u003e       Modern Belief--Greek Pharmacy and Sorcery--Early Roman\u003cbr\u003e       Laws against Conjuration and Magic Charms--Crimes\u003cbr\u003e       perpetrated, under the Empire, in connection with\u003cbr\u003e       Sorceric Practices--The general Persecution for Magic\u003cbr\u003e       under Valentinian and Valens--German and Scandinavian\u003cbr\u003e       Sagæ--Essential Difference between Eastern and Western\u003cbr\u003e       Sorcery--The probable Origin of the general Belief in an\u003cbr\u003e       Evil Principle                                        PAGE 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART II.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Compromise between the New and the Old Faiths--Witchcraft\u003cbr\u003e       under the Early Church--The Sentiments of the Fathers and\u003cbr\u003e       the Decrees of Councils--Platonic Influences--Historical,\u003cbr\u003e       Physiological, and Accidental Causes of the Attribution\u003cbr\u003e       of Witchcraft to the Female Sex--Opinions of the Fathers\u003cbr\u003e       and other Writers--The Witch-Compact                      47\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Charlemagne's Severity--Anglo-Saxon Superstition--Norman\u003cbr\u003e       and Arabic Magic--Influence of Arabic Science--Mohammedan\u003cbr\u003e       Belief in Magic--Rabbinical Learning--Roger Bacon--The\u003cbr\u003e       Persecution of the Templars--Alice Kyteler                63\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Witchcraft and Heresy purposely confounded by the\u003cbr\u003e       Church--Mediæval Science closely connected with Magic and\u003cbr\u003e       Sorcery--Ignorance of Physiology the Cause of many of the\u003cbr\u003e       Popular Prejudices--Jeanne d'Arc--Duchess of\u003cbr\u003e       Gloucester--Jane Shore--Persecution at Arras              84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART III.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     The Bull of Innocent VIII.--A new Incentive to the vigorous\u003cbr\u003e       Prosecution of Witchcraft--The 'Malleus Maleficarum'--Its\u003cbr\u003e       Criminal Code--Numerous Executions at the Commencement of\u003cbr\u003e       the Sixteenth Century--Examination of Christian\u003cbr\u003e       Demonology--Various Opinions of the Nature of\u003cbr\u003e       Demons--General Belief in the Intercourse of Demons and\u003cbr\u003e       other non-human Beings with Mankind                      101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Three Sorts of Witches--Various Modes of Witchcraft--Manner\u003cbr\u003e       of Witch-Travelling--The Sabbaths--Anathemas of the Popes\u003cbr\u003e       against the Crime--Bull of Adrian VI.--Cotemporary\u003cbr\u003e       Testimony to the Severity of the Persecutions--Necessary\u003cbr\u003e       Triumph of the Orthodox Party--Germany most subject to\u003cbr\u003e       the Superstition--Acts of Parliament of Henry VIII.\u003cbr\u003e       against Witchcraft--Elizabeth Barton--The Act of\u003cbr\u003e       1562--Executions under Queen Elizabeth's Government--Case\u003cbr\u003e       of Witchcraft narrated by Reginald Scot                  126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     The 'Discoverie of Witchcraft,' published 1584--Wier's 'De\u003cbr\u003e       Præstigiis Dæmonum,' \u0026amp;c.--Naudé--Jean Bodin--His 'De la\u003cbr\u003e       Démonomanie des Sorciers,' published at Paris, 1580--His\u003cbr\u003e       Authority--Nider--Witch-case at Warboys--Evidence adduced\u003cbr\u003e       at the Trial--Remarkable as being the Origin of the\u003cbr\u003e       Institution of an Annual Sermon at Huntingdon            144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IV.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Astrology in Antiquity--Modern Astrology and\u003cbr\u003e       Alchymy--Torralvo--Adventures of Dr. Dee and Edward\u003cbr\u003e       Kelly--Prospero and Comus, Types respectively of the\u003cbr\u003e       Theurgic and Goetic Arts--Magicians on the Stage in the\u003cbr\u003e       Sixteenth Century--Occult Science in Southern\u003cbr\u003e       Europe--Causes of the inevitable Mistakes of the\u003cbr\u003e       pre-Scientific Ages                                      157\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER V.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Sorcery in Southern Europe--Cause of the Retention of the\u003cbr\u003e       Demonological Creed among the Protestant Sects--Calvinists\u003cbr\u003e       the most Fanatical of the Reformed Churches--Witch-Creed\u003cbr\u003e       sanctioned in the Authorised Version of the Sacred\u003cbr\u003e       Scriptures--The Witch-Act of 1604--James VI.'s\u003cbr\u003e       'Demonologie'--Lycanthropy and Executions in France--The\u003cbr\u003e       French Provincial Parliaments active in passing Laws\u003cbr\u003e       against the various Witch-practices--Witchcraft in the\u003cbr\u003e       Pyrenees--Commission of Inquiry appointed--Its\u003cbr\u003e       Results--Demonology in Spain                             168","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default 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