Front matter
Reading edition
The History of Civilization Edited by C. K. Ogden, M.A.
The History of Witchcraft
The History of Civilization
Edited by C. K. Ogden, M.A.
Harry Elmer Barnes, Ph.D., Consulting American Editor.
The volumes already published are:
*Social Organization W. H. R. Rivers, F.R.S.
*A Thousand Years of the Tartars Professor E. H. Parker
*The Threshold of the Pacific Dr. C. E. Fox
The Earth Before History Edmond Perrier
Prehistoric Man Jacques de Morgan
Language Professor J. Vendryes
*History and Literature of Christianity Professor P. de Labriolle
*China and Europe Adolf Reichwein
*London Life in the Eighteenth Century M. Dorothy George
A Geographical Introduction to History Professor Lucien Febvre
*The Dawn of European Civilization V. Gordon Childe, B.Litt.
Mesopotamia: Babylonian and Assyrian Civilization Prof. L. Delaporte
*The Ægean Civilization Professor Gustave Glotz
*The Peoples of Asia L. H. Dudley Buxton
*The Migration of Symbols Donald A. Mackenzie
*Life and Work in Modern Europe Professor Georges Renard
*Travel and Travellers of the Middle Ages Edited by Prof. A. P. Newton
*Civilization of the South American Indians Rafael Karsten
Race and History Professor E. Pittard
From Tribe to Empire Professor A. Moret
*A History of Witchcraft Montague Summers
*Ancient Greece at Work Professor G. Glotz
The Formation of the Greek People Professor A. Jardé
*The Aryans V. Gordon Childe, D.Litt.
Primitive Italy Professor Léon Homo
Rome the Law-Giver Professor J. Declareuil
The Roman Spirit Professor A. Grenier
In preparation:
*Life and Work in Medieval Europe Professor Boissonade
*A History of Medicine C. G. Cumston, M.D.
Ancient Persia and Iranian Civilization Professor C. Huart
*Ancient Rome at Work Paul Louis
The Life of Buddha E. H. Thomas, D.Litt.
* An asterisk indicates that the volume does not form part of the French collection “L’Évolution de l’Humanité.”
A complete classified list of the Series will be found at the end of this volume.
PLATE I
THE DEPARTURE FOR THE SABBAT. David Teniers
[frontispiece
The History of Witchcraft and Demonology
By MONTAGUE SUMMERS
Initiati sunt Beelphegor: et comederunt sacrificia mortuorum. Et immolauerunt filios suos, et filias suas dæmoniis Et effuderunt sanguinem innocentem. Et fornicati sunt in adinuentionibus suis.—Psalm cv.
NEW YORK ALFRED A. KNOPF 1926
To
PATRICK,
in memory of Loreto and Our Lady’s Holy House, as also of Our Lady’s miraculous Picture at Campocavallo, Our Lady of Pompeii, La Consolata of Turin, Consolatrix Afflictorum in S. Caterina ai Funari at Rome, la Santissima Vergine del Parto of S. Agostino, the Madonna della Strada at the Gesù, La Nicopeja of San Marco at Venice, Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Nouvelle of Rennes, Notre-Dame de Grande Puissance of Lamballe, and all the Italian and French Madonnas at whose shrines we have worshipped.
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