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Magic and Witchcraft

Author
George Moir
Series
Sacred World
Language
English
Length
80 pages
ISBN
9781787361799
Published
5 April 2020
Imprint
Adelphi Press
  • Magic
  • witch
  • witchcraft
  • occultism
  • mystic
  • mystisism
  • vampires
  • demons

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Description

A clear historical brief on how belief in witches became arrests, trials, confessions, and punishment. Moir follows superstition into courts and statutes, not into spellcraft for its own sake. Useful if you want the legal and social machinery of the witch hunt.

Author

George Moir (1800–1870) was a Scottish advocate, man of letters, and amateur artist whose Magic and Witchcraft surveys superstition, conjuring, and the history of occult belief with a lawyer's curiosity. Writing from Edinburgh's learned world, he treats wonder as a subject for reason rather than a sermon against it — a readable companion to the long European argument about what counts as natural and what does not.

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