WITCHCRAFT IN ENGLAND
Book Details + Condition: B.T. Batsford Ltd (London). First Edition thus, 1977. Hardcover with dust jacket. 200 pages, with illustrations by Mervyn Peake. Award-winning British folklorist and author Christina Hole's history of English occult practices is an illustrated survey of ancient rites and sorcery. Contents include:
- Witchcraft and Religion
- Maleficium
- Familiars and Shape-shifting
- Discovery of Witches
- Fraud and Malice
- White Witch
- Witchcraft in High Places
- Prophets and Astrologers
- Decline of Belief
- And more.
From the massive occult collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. In very good condition, with firm binding; Parker's bookplate to inside front board and embossed stamp to title page; interior is clean and free of markings. Dust jacket shows minimal shelf wear, and retains the original price.
