cool turn of the century book on witchcraft now on ebay

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A rare early work on witchcraft, very scarce and beautifully bound and illustrated with plates. Interesting chapters on Voodoo Magic and the Secret Society of Rosicrucians as well. This book also discusses the witch hunts of Salem in depth.

Witchcraft Illustrated
Witchcraft to be understood - facts, theories and incidents. With a glance at Old and New Salem and its historical resources.
Illustrated with numerous plates
By Henrietta Kimball
Published 1892

•••••Partial contents•••••
• Story of Salem Witchcraft
• Witchcraft in Maine
• A New Hampshire Witch Story
• Witchcraft in Sweden
• Catherine Emmerich
• The Rosicrucians
• Voodoo or Hoodooism
• Old Mother Shipton's prophecies
• Old and New Salem
• The Essex Institute
"...then they called three times upon the Devil..this invocation never failed to bring him..the first question he put to them was, would they serve him soul and body....they gave him a horn win which the scrapings..from altars..were mixed with a salve. ...horned toads were conjured for their use, and away they sailed under the moon like a troop of black bats."

"Witchcraft and heresy had long been judged as twin sisters, and the Devil, as the Universal enemy was the soul and mainspring of the system

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1. And others - Fairy Legends of the South of Ireland (1828)

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1828 FAIRY LEGENDS IRELAND Crokers OCCULT BANSHEE DRUID

Being 178 years old and very good plus condition, you're bidding on A SCARCE COPY of
FAIRY LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS OF THE SOUTH OF IRELAND

Written by CROKERS

Published 1828 by JOHN MURRAY

Originally published unanimously in 1825

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1939 FIRST ED JEWISH MAGIC SUPERSTITION OCCULT SORCERY

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THE MIRROR OF MAGIC

Written by

KURT SELIGMANN

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FOLK-LORE OF PLANTS

Written by
T.F. THISELTON DYER

Published 1894 by CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY, LONDON ... This is the FIRST EDITION

A CLASSIC

Contents are:

Plant Life

Primitive and Savage Notions Respecting Plants

Plant Worship

Lightning Plants

Plants in Witchcraft

Plants in Demonology

Plants in Fairy-Lore

Love-Charms

Dream-Plants

Plants and the Weather

Plant Proverbs

Plants and Their Ceremonial Use

Plant Names

Plant Language

Fabulous Plants

Doctrine of Signatures

Children's Rhymes and Games

Sacred Plants

Plant Superstitions

Plants in Fold-Medicine

Plants and Their Legendary History

Mystic Plants

Some excerpts

Plants in Witchcraft

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2. Wow

I am glad I saw that folklore of plants after the auction had ended. I would have been seriously tempted.