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Robbins, Rossell Hope.
The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology.
Publisher: Peter Nevill Limited, London;
Date of Publication: 1965
Stock Code: 15196
Fourth Impression, large octavo, pp., 571. Illustrations within text. Publisher’s wine red cloth with gilt titles to spine, in an unclipped illustrated dust-jacket. Spine head bumped, light toning to text-block. The dust-jacket has some chips to the spine tips and top corners, the front panel has a 3cm closed tear and associated crease, the price is obscured with blue ink. This Encyclopedia attempts a traditional balanced history of the 300 years of horror from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries when witchcraft as a Christian heresy was used to as an excuse to control and punish people, mostly women. The author declares witchcraft in this context to not be a department of folklore, mythology, legend, magic or even Satanism, stating witchcraft to be a colossal fraud and delusion, an impossibility. This book is about the crime and shame of Christianity in early modern Europe, its terrorism of its population and abuse of power to torture and kill innocent people. £60.00