A razor for a goat : a discussion of certain problems in the history of witchcraft and diabolism / Elliot Rose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rose, Elliot, author.

Contributor:

Kieckhefer, Richard

Series:

Scholarly reprint series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Witchcraft.

Devil.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Canada] ; London, [England] ; Buffalo, [New York] : University of Toronto Press, 1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book will interest those who have already made some study of the subject of witchcraft but will also intrigue the educated non-specialist. Closely reasoned, it is also written with a rare wit, which makes it difficult to put down.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Which Witch Is Which?""; ""2. Light from the Obscure Men""; ""3. Dianus versus Diabolus""; ""4. 1066 and All That""; ""5. Divinity That Doth Hedge""; ""6. A Hunt for a Huntress""; ""7. What Song the Syrens Sang""; ""8. The Gargoyles of Notre Dame""; ""9. The Powers of Darkness""; ""10. A Tell-tale in Their Company""; ""Appendixes""; ""A. The Blokula Scare""; ""B. The Waldensians and Albigensians""; ""C. A Short Glossary of Words Sometimes Treated as Technical Terms of Sorcery""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""

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Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 1962.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 22, 2016).

ISBN:

1-282-05633-6

9786612056338

1-4426-7043-6

OCLC:

946712802