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IN PRESS, TO BE PUBLISHED SHORTLY, NARRATIVES OF SORCERY AND MAGIC; FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES.

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IN PRESS, TO BE PUBLISHED SHORTLY,
NARRATIVES
OF
SORCERY AND MAGIC;
FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES.

By THOMAS WRIGHT, A. M., F. R. A.

In One Volume, 12mo., Cloth—Price $1.25.

NOTICES OF THE PRESS.

“This is one of the pleasantest books about witchcraft that we ever read;
and Mr. Wright tells his stories and conveys his information with so much
spirit and good sense that we are sorry he has confined himself to only one
department of a subject which he is very well able to treat as a whole.
Mr. Wright has rewritten the criminal annals of witchcraft in a style perfectly
free from any important faults; and he has illustrated his narrative
by rich collateral facts as could be acquired only by long familiarity with a
peculiar and extensive branch of antiquarian learning. We do not see
then that the fortunes of witchcraft have aught to hope from any narrator
who may attempt to supersede him.”

—Athenæum.

“This is a very curious and highly interesting book. It contains a series
of popular stories of sorcery and magic (the first chiefly) and their victims,
from the period of the middle ages down to that of the last executions for
witchcraft in England and America. Mr. Wright tells these stories admirably;
and without marring their effect as illustrations of the respective
phases of corrupt or imperfect civilization to which they were incident, his
clear comments point the truth or philosophy of the individual case independent
of its subjection to general causes or influences. The range of information
in the book is extraordinarily wide, and it is popularly set forth
throughout, without a touch of pedantry or a dull page.”

—Examiner.

“From this wide field Mr. Wright has selected two parts for illustration
viz., sorcery and magic; and must have devoted much reading and research
to produce so comprehensive a view of them, not only in England and
Scotland, but in France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Sweden, and New
England.”

—Literary Gazette.

University of Virginia Library

IN PRESS, TO BE PUBLISHED SHORTLY, NARRATIVES OF SORCERY AND MAGIC; FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES.

IN PRESS, TO BE PUBLISHED SHORTLY,
NARRATIVES
OF
SORCERY AND MAGIC;
FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES.