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This examination of the connection between the belief in miracles and religious practices in ancient times was originally written by French politician and polymath Anne-Joseph-Eusb̈e Baconnir̈e de Salverte (1771-1839) and published in 1829. In 1846, it was translated into English by a Scottish physician and writer, Anthony Todd Thomson (1778-1849), and published in two volumes. Thomson explains that Salverte's work was an important study of miracles and the power of priests, and he had 'performed a beneficial service in throwing open the gates of ancient sanctuaries'. However, Thomson also states that he differed from Salverte over the idea of the miraculous, and that he had expunged or heavily edited any passages relating to Christianity, even changing 'miracles' in the original subtitle to 'apparent miracles'. Volume 2 discusses the role of drugs and poison in magic.

Magic. --- Magick --- Necromancy --- Sorcery --- Spells --- Occultism

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The English historian and antiquary Thomas Wright (1810-70) co-founded and joined a number of antiquarian and literary societies. He was greatly interested in Old English, Middle English and Anglo-Norman texts, and in the 1840s and 1850s he published widely within these areas. Gradually his focus shifted to the archaeology of Roman Britain and to Anglo-Saxon cemeteries. Although much of Wright's research has been completely superseded, his work is still considered worth consulting, as he collected material not readily available elsewhere. This two-volume 1851 publication is testimony to Wright's interest in folklore, sorcery and legend. In Volume 2, he maintains a broad perspective while surveying instances of witchcraft in the seventeenth century. Wright writes about such famous cases as the Earl of Somerset, the Ursuline nuns of Loudun, and the Mohra witches in Sweden.

Witchcraft --- Magic --- History. --- Magick --- Necromancy --- Sorcery --- Spells --- Occultism

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'A pioneer of modern anthropology', A.C. Haddon contributed to the fields of embryology & evolutionary science before turning his interests to human civilisation & its history. In this work, Haddon makes use of his knowledge of folk rituals & religious beliefs to introduce readers to basic principles of sympathetic magic, divination, talismanic powers & fetishism. A strong believer in the importance of preserving local religious practices & beliefs, Haddon uses the work to document customs from Britain to West Africa, America to Australia. Topics include forms of contagious magic, premised on a mutual influence between objects; amulets & talismans; magical names & words; and divination. In the second portion of the book, devoted to fetishism, Haddon offers an authoritative description of the fetish as a 'habitation, temporary or permanent, of a spiritual being'.

Magic. --- Talismans. --- Amulets. --- Divination. --- Fetishism. --- Magic --- Superstition --- Amulets --- Charms --- Fetichism --- Rites and ceremonies --- Worship --- Augury --- Soothsaying --- Occultism --- Archaeology --- Demonology --- Witchcraft --- Talismans --- Magick --- Necromancy --- Sorcery --- Spells

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The late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are known as the Age of Enlightenment, a time of science and reason. But in this illuminating book, Paul Monod reveals the surprising extent to which Newton, Boyle, Locke, and other giants of rational thought and empiricism also embraced the spiritual, the magical, and the occult. Although public acceptance of occult and magical practices waxed and waned during this period they survived underground, experiencing a considerable revival in the mid-eighteenth century with the rise of new antiestablishment religious denominations. The occult spilled over into politics with the radicalism of the French Revolution and into literature in early Romanticism. Even when official disapproval was at its strongest, the evidence points to a growing audience for occult publications as well as to subversive popular enthusiasm. Ultimately, finds Monod, the occult was not discarded in favor of "reason" but was incorporated into new forms of learning. In that sense, the occult is part of the modern world, not simply a relic of an unenlightened past, and is still with us today.

Alchemy. --- Enlightenment. --- Magic. --- Occult sciences. --- Science --- Natural science --- Natural sciences --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Art, Black (Magic) --- Arts, Black (Magic) --- Black art (Magic) --- Black arts (Magic) --- Occult, The --- Occult sciences --- Occultism --- Supernatural --- New Age movement --- Parapsychology --- Magick --- Necromancy --- Sorcery --- Spells --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Metals, Transmutation of --- Philosophers' egg --- Philosophers' stone --- Stone, Philosophers' --- Transmutation of metals --- Chemistry --- History --- Miscellanea. --- Occultism.

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Science, Medieval. --- Medicine, Medieval. --- Astrology --- Magic --- Sciences médiévales --- Médecine médiévale --- Astrologie --- Magie --- History --- Histoire --- Petrus, --- Science, Medieval --- Medicine, Medieval --- Sciences médiévales --- Médecine médiévale --- Medieval science --- Medieval medicine --- Magick --- Necromancy --- Sorcery --- Spells --- Occultism --- Horoscopy --- Astronomy, Medieval --- Aban, Pierre d', --- Abano, Peter de, --- Abano, Pietro d', --- Abanus, Petrus, --- Abbano, Petrus de, --- Albano, Petrus de, --- De Abano, Petrus, --- Ebano, Petrus de, --- Peter, --- Pierre, --- Pietro, --- Astrology - History - To 1500 --- Magic - History - To 1500 --- Petrus, - de Abano, - approximately 1250-approximately 1315