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Daemonologie—in full Dæmonologie, In Forme of a Dialogue, Divided into three Books: By the High and Mightie Prince, James &c.—was first published in 1597 [1] by King James VI of Scotland (later also James I of England) as a philosophical dissertation on contemporary necromancy and the historical relationships between the various methods of divination used from ancient black magic.
The occult is a category of supernatural beliefs and practices, encompassing such phenomena as those involving mysticism, spirituality, and magic in terms of any otherworldly agency.
demonomancy / d ɪ ˈ m ɒ n oʊ m æ n s i /: by demons (Greek daimōn, ' divine power ' + manteía, ' prophecy ') dendromancy / ˈ d ɛ n d r oʊ m æ n s i /: by trees, especially oaks, yews, or mistletoe (Greek dendron, ' tree ' + manteía, ' prophecy ') deuteroscopy / ˌ dj uː t ə ˈ r ɒ s k oʊ p i /: by second glance or double take ...
The treatise as a whole consists of extensive research across a wide range of topics. The first tome contains 52 chapters and mostly deals with the apparitions of spirits, angels and demons while also covering the study of magic, sorcery and witchcraft. Topics also include: Angelic and demonic intervention
This is a list of species and genera that are used as entheogens or are used in an entheogenic concoction (such as ayahuasca). For ritualistic use they may be classified as hallucinogens. The active principles and historical significance of each are also listed to illustrate the requirements necessary to be categorized as an entheogen.
Historians Keith Thomas and his student Alan Macfarlane study witchcraft by combining historical research with concepts drawn from anthropology. [92] [93] [94] They argued that English witchcraft, like African witchcraft, was endemic rather than epidemic. Old women were the favorite targets because they were marginal, dependent members of the ...
Europe's Inner Demons: An Enquiry Inspired by the Great Witch-Hunt is a historical study of the beliefs regarding European witchcraft in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, with particular reference to the development of the witches' sabbat and its influence on the witch trials in the Early Modern period.
Title page from a 1658 printed edition. The Witch of Edmonton is an English Jacobean play, written by William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford in 1621.. The play—"probably the most sophisticated treatment of domestic tragedy in the whole of Elizabethan-Jacobean drama" [1] —is based on events that supposedly took place in the parish of Edmonton, then outside London, earlier that year.