The Encyclopedia of the Occult

1988, A compendium of information on the occult sciences, occult personalities, psychic science, demonology, spiritism, and mysticism

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Printing Details

Reprint. Hardback in dustwrapper. 27.5 × 20cm, 451pp.

Subtitled "A compendium of information on the occult sciences, occult personalities, psychic science, demonology, spiritism, and mysticism" this title was one of a kind when it was first published in 1920 and is still considered the best in its field today. Lewis Spence (a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, and Vice-President of the Scottish Anthropological and Folklore Society) organizes a world's worth of magic from "Ab" (a magical month in the ancient Semitic calendar) to "Zulu witch-finders" into 2,500 entries that explore concepts and personalities both familiar (Freemasonry, Morgan le Fay) to the obscure: palingenesy (a process by which plants or vegetables are destroyed and then "resurrected"), and Leonora Galigai (a 17th-century Italian aristocrat who was burned as a witch).

Condition

Good condition. There is creasing and edgewear to the wrapper, and some tanning to the pages but the book remains in strong readable condition.

ISBN

1851701834

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