{"product_id":"2940015835403","title":"THE WITCH-CULT IN WESTERN EUROPE","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                            PAGE\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE                                       5\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION                                  9\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. CONTINUITY OF THE RELIGION                19\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII. THE GOD                                  28\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  1. As God                                  28\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  2. As a Human Being                        31\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  3. Identification                          47\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  4. As an Animal                            60\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII. ADMISSION CEREMONIES                    71\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  1. General                                 71\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  2. The Introduction                        76\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  3. The Renunciation and Vows               77\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  4. The Covenant                            79\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  5. The Baptism                             82\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  6. The Mark                                86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV. THE ASSEMBLIES                           97\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  1. The Sabbath. Method of going.\u003cbr\u003e     The site. The date. The hour            97\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  2. The Esbat. Business.\u003cbr\u003e     The site. The time.                    112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eV. THE RITES                                124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  1. General                                124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  2. Homage                                 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  3. The Dances                             130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  4. The Music                              135\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  5. The Feast                              138\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  6. Candles                                144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  7. The Sacrament                          148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  8. Sacrifices: Of animals.\u003cbr\u003e     Of children. Of the God                152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  9 Magic Words                             162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVI. THE RITES, _continued_                  169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  1. General                                169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  2. Rain-making                            172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  3. Fertility                              173\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVII. THE ORGANIZATION                       186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  1. The Officer                            186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  2. The Covens                             190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  3. Duties                                 194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  4. Discipline                             197\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVIII. THE FAMILIARS AND TRANSFORMATIONS     205\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  1. The Divining Familiar                  205\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  2. The Domestic Familiar                  208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  3. Methods of obtaining Familiars         222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  4. Transformations into Animals           230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDIX I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Fairies and Witches                       238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDIX II.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Trial of Silvain Nevillon. Taken from De\u003cbr\u003e  Lancre's _L'Incredulité et\u003cbr\u003e  Méscréance_                               246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDIX III.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  A. Covens and Names of Members            249\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  B. Index of Witches' Names, with Notes    255\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDIX IV.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Notes on the Trials of Joan\u003cbr\u003e  of Arc and Gilles de Rais                 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDIX V.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Some Notes on 'Flying' Ointments.\u003cbr\u003e  By Prof. A. J. Clark                      279\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBIBLIOGRAPHY                                281\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGENERAL INDEX                               286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe subject of Witches and Witchcraft has always suffered from the biassed\u003cbr\u003eopinions of the commentators, both contemporary and of later date. On the\u003cbr\u003eone hand are the writers who, having heard the evidence at first hand,\u003cbr\u003ebelieve implicitly in the facts and place upon them the unwarranted\u003cbr\u003econstruction that those facts were due to supernatural power; on the other\u003cbr\u003ehand are the writers who, taking the evidence on hearsay and disbelieving\u003cbr\u003ethe conclusions drawn by their opponents, deny the facts _in toto_. Both\u003cbr\u003eparties believed with equal firmness in a personal Devil, and both\u003cbr\u003esupported their arguments with quotations from the Bible. But as the\u003cbr\u003ebelievers were able to bring forward more texts than the unbelievers and\u003cbr\u003ehad in their hands an unanswerable argument in the Witch of Endor, the\u003cbr\u003eunbelievers, who dared not contradict the Word of God, were forced to fall\u003cbr\u003eback on the theory that the witches suffered from hallucination, hysteria,\u003cbr\u003eand, to use the modern word, 'auto-suggestion'. These two classes still\u003cbr\u003epersist, the sceptic predominating. Between the believer who believed\u003cbr\u003eeverything and the unbeliever who disbelieved everything there has been no\u003cbr\u003ecritical examination of the evidence, which presents a new and untouched\u003cbr\u003efield of research to the student of comparative religion.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175567147248,"sku":"2940015835403","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015835403","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}