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Daemonologie

Author
King James VI
Series
Sacred World
Language
English
Length
88 pages
ISBN
9781787361768
Published
5 April 2020
Imprint
Adelphi Press
  • Magic
  • demons
  • demonology
  • necromancy
  • werewolves
  • vampires
  • occultism

Description

A philosophical work on contemporary necromancy and the historical relationships between the various methods of divination used from ancient black magic. This included a study on demonology and the methods demons used to bother troubled men. It also touches on topics such as werewolves and vampires. It was a political yet theological statement to educate a misinformed populace on the history, practices and implications of sorcery and the reasons for persecuting a person in a Christian society accused of being a witch under the rule of canonical law. This book is believed to be one of the main sources used by William Shakespeare in the production of Macbeth.

Author

King James VI of Scotland (later James I of England, 1566–1625) was a scholar-king whose Daemonologie (1597) examined witchcraft, demonology, and the supernatural for a learned audience. Written before the English throne and the King James Bible that bears his name, the treatise belongs to an age when royal authority and occult fear shared the same page.

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