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Witch, Warlock, and Magician: Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland (Classic Reprint)
Witch Warlock and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland - Classic Reprint Author:W. H. Davenport Adams INTRODUCTION. — frogress of alchemy in europe. — The word xwHa-^rom which we derive our English word c chemistry'-first occurs, it is said, in the Lexicon of Suidas, a Greek'writer who flourished in the eleventh century. Here is his definition of it: — 1 Chemistry is the art of preparing gold and silver. The hooks concerning it were sought out and ... more »burnt by Diocletian, on account of the new plots directed against him by the Egyptians. He behaved towards them with great cruelty in his search after the treatises written by the ancients, his purpose being to prevent them from growing rich by a knowledge of this art, lest, emboldened by measureless wealth, they should be induced to resist the Roman supremacy.'
Some authorities assert, however, that this art, or pretended art, is of much greater antiquity than Suidas knew of; and Scaliger refers to a Greek manuscript by Zozomen, of the fifth century, which is entitled ' A Faithful Description of the Secret and Divine Art of Making Gold a
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION; progress of alchemy in europe - - 1; BOOK I THE ENGLISH MAGICIANS; CHAPTEK; i roger bacon : the true and the legendary - 27 ii the story of dr john dee - - 59; iii dr dee's diary - - - - - 93; iv magic and imposture: a couple of knaves - 102 v the last1 of the english magicians: william; lilly - - - - - - 128; vi english rosicrucians - - - - 181; BOOK II; WITCHES AND WITCHCRAFT; Yr early history of witchcraft in england - 203; m witchcraft in england in the seventeenth; century - - - - - - 244; ik the decline of witchcraft in england - - 292; iv the witches of scotland - - - 303; v the literature of witchcraft - - - 378
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