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Kenyon, Theda.
Witches Still Live;
Publisher: Rider & Co. Great Britian;
Date of Publication: 1931
Stock Code: 12625
First British Edition. Octavo, pp., 285. With a frontispiece and six brooding illustrations by Seigel. Publisher’s brown cloth with gilt title to spine. Minor edgewear and rubbing to spine tips, a very clean copy. With the ownership signature of ‘G’ or possibly ‘E’ Ismay Trimble to the front free endpaper. First published in 1929 in the USA by Ives Washburn, Kenyon’s book is a serious examination of Witchcraft in the modern era in Western countries. Chapter headings include ’the Nature-cult’, ‘Witches' Familiars’, ‘The Black Mass’, ‘The Sex-Ritual’, ‘Love Charms’ and ‘How to Cast a Spell’. The extensive bibliography to the rear of the book list around 100 titles on witchcraft. Theda Kenyon (1894-1997) was an American writer and lecturer and whilst her first name is an anagram of "death" she lived to be over 100 years old. Scarce. £225.00