Witch, Warlock, and Magician (Annotated)

Witch, Warlock, and Magician is a late-Victorian survey of magic, demonology, and witchcraft, chiefly in Britain, moving from learned occult traditions to popular superstition and the terrible machinery of persecution. Adams writes in an antiquarian yet accessible manner, combining historical anecdote, moral reflection, and documentary summary. Set within nineteenth-century rationalist reassessmen...