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Mary Oneida Toups (April 25, 1928 – September 1981) was an American occultist known as the "Witch Queen of New Orleans". Toups was the founder and high priestess of the Religious Order of Witchcraft, which was the first coven to be chartered as an official religious organization in the state of Louisiana.
This category is for articles on history books with witchcraft as a topic. Pages in category "History books about witchcraft" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
The Malleus Maleficarum, [a] usually translated as the Hammer of Witches, [3] [b] is the best known treatise about witchcraft. [6] [7] It was written by the German Catholic clergyman Heinrich Kramer (under his Latinized name Henricus Institor) and first published in the German city of Speyer in 1486.
Gary Charles Erbe (April 12, 1951 – March 10, 2019), known as Raven Grimassi, was an American author of over 20 books, including topics on Wicca, Stregheria, witchcraft and neo-paganism. He popularized Stregheria , the religious practice of witchcraft with roots in Italy.
Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches is a book composed by the American folklorist Charles Godfrey Leland that was published in 1899. It contains what he believed was the religious text of a group of pagan witches in Tuscany, Italy, that documented their beliefs and rituals. Historians and folklorists have disputed the existence of such a group.
The Discoverie of Witchcraft and The First Part of Clever and Pleasant Inventions by Jean Prevost, both published in 1584, are considered the seminal works of magic. [3] Scot's volume became an exhaustive encyclopædia of contemporary beliefs about witchcraft, spirits, alchemy, [4] magic, and legerdemain, as well as attracting widespread attention to his scepticism on witchcraft.
De praestigiis daemonum, translated as On the Tricks of Demons, [1] is a book by medical doctor Johann Weyer, also known as Wier, first published in Basel in 1563. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The book argues that witchcraft does not exist and that those who claim to practice it are suffering from delusions, which should be treated as mental illnesses, rather ...
The author says, "I, Honorius, have laid out the works of Solomon in such a manner in my book," indicating that his sourcebooks are (falsely) attributed to Solomon. [2] The Sworn Book features the Seal of Solomon and contains ritual elements which are characteristic of the Pseudo-Solomonic corpus of magical literature. [ 3 ]