A compleat history of magick, sorcery, and witchcraft. Volume 1 / Richard Boulton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boulton, Richard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Magic--Early works to 1800.

Magic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : E. Curll J. Pemberton and W. Taylor, 1715.

Summary:

"The following sheets contain a history of magic, sorcery, witchcraft, apparitions, and spectres. We think it requisite to give the reader a brief account of the nature and usefulness of our design in the first place; and having represented the design and usefulness of this treatise, we shall in the next place offer something to confirm the belief and credit of histories so well attested. We first lay down the method we have taken in this history: we give the reader a compendious account of the origin and rise of the art of magic and witchcraft, as an introduction the following history that He might have at once in View, a general Notion of the diabolical arts practiced by such wretched persons, and the manner how they make their abominable contracts with the devil, and bring wicked spirits under their command, to put their ill designs in practice; from whence we proceed to given an historical account of the mischievous proceedings and actions of those instruments of the devil, magicians and witches, and what untimely and disgraceful ends such wicked practices have brought such persons to at the last. As for the usefulness of this treatise, the histories contained in it, being collected from the best authors who have wrote upon those subject, they not only serve to put us in mind of the delusions of Satan, but also, they may put us in mind to arm ourselves against the temptations of the devil"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved).

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (Worldcat, viewed May 31, 2023).