WITCHCRAFT & MAGIC - Ultimate Collection
Salem Trials, European Folklore, Demonology, and Gothic Tales of the SupernaturalBy Cotton Mather, William Godwin, Howard Williams, Frederick George Lee, Walter Scott, Jules Michelet, M. Schele de Vere, John Ashton, W. H. Davenport Adams, Charles Mackay, George Moir, Margaret Murray, St. John D. Seymour, John G. Campbell, John Maxwell Wood, Bram Stoker, E. Lynn Linton, Wilhelm Meinhold, Increase Mather, Charles Wentworth Upham, M. V. B. Perley, James Thacher, William P. Upham, Samuel Roberts Wells, John M. Taylor, Allen Putnam
Length274h 40m
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WITCHCRAFT & MAGIC - Ultimate Collection surveys the shifting meanings of sorcery, superstition, demonology, folk belief, and occult inquiry across several centuries. Combining trial narratives, historical studies, theological polemic, antiquarian scholarship, fiction, and cultural commentary, it reveals witchcraft as both a social accusation and a durable imaginative resource. Accounts of Salem and Scottish traditions stand beside examinations of continental demonological lore, skeptical reassessments, and Gothic treatments in which the supernatural becomes a vehicle for psychological and national anxieties. Its contributors range from Puritan divines and early chroniclers to Victorian historians, folklorists, reform-minded writers, and major literary artists. Together, these voices trace the movement from providential interpretations of alleged witchcraft toward Enlightenment critique, nineteenth-century antiquarianism, folklore studies, and Gothic revivalism. The collection therefore situates magical belief within religious conflict, gendered persecution, local custom, colonial history, and the development of modern historical method, while preserving the unsettling power of the stories themselves. Recommended for students and general readers of folklore, religious history, Gothic literature, and cultural studies, this volume offers an unusually broad archive in a single book. Its contrasting genres invite readers to compare evidence, rhetoric, credulity, and imagination, fostering a rich dialogue between testimony, scholarship, and literary invention.
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GenreSpirituality and Religion, Literary Classics
Length274 hrs 40 mins
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Publish dateJun 4, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Treatise on the Apparitions of Spirits and on Vampires (Annotated)
26Chapter III.
2WITCHCRAFT & MAGIC - Ultimate Collection
27Chapter IV.
3Introduction
28Chapter V.
4The Superstitions of Witchcraft by Howard Williams
29Chapter VI.
5Preface
30Chapter VII.
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6PART I. EARLIER FAITH: Chapter I.
31Chapter VIII.
7PART II. MEDIÆVAL FAITH
32Chapter IX.
8Chapter I.
33Chapter X.
9Chapter II.
34Chapter XI.
10Chapter III.
35Chapter XII.
11PART III. MODERN FAITH
36Chapter XIII.
12Chapter I.
37Chapter XIV.
13Chapter II.
38Chapter XV.
14Chapter III.
39Chapter XVI.
15Chapter IV.
40Chapter XVII.
16Chapter V.
41Chapter XVIII.
17Chapter VI.
42Chapter XIX.
18Chapter VII.
43Chapter XX.
19Chapter VIII.
44Chapter XXI.
20Chapter IX.
45Chapter XXII.
21Chapter X.
46Chapter XXIII.
22The Devil in Britain and America by John Ashton
47Chapter XXIV.
23Preface
48Witchcraft in Europe
24Chapter I.
49History of Magic and Witchcraft
25Chapter II.
50Magic and Witchcraft by George Moir
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