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By: Brown, David C.
Price: $6.00
Publisher: David C. Brown: 1988
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2261937
2nd printing. Surface tear and faint stain on front wrapper, page ridges lightly foxed. 1988 Trade Paperback. x, 132 pp. The following work has been written to afford those visiting the Salem environs a means of acquainting themselves with the physical remains of the outbreak of witchcraft in Essex County in 1692. It is not intended to shed fundamentally new light of the events of that year; rather, it should serve to sketch the history of the era and integrate that hist... View more info
By: Cooper. Phillip
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Samuel Weiser, Inc.: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2261003
First edition. A nice copy. 2000 Trade Paperback. xi, 163 pp. This book has everything you need to begin your exploration into the fascinating world of flame and wax. Using Cooper's techniques for training your mind and working with the energy of candles, you can change your life and help others. View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1983
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2200332
2nd printing. 1983 Trade Paperback. xiv, 543 pp. Winner of the Bancroft Prize. John Putnam Demos present[s] an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreate[s] the world of New England during the witchcraft trials and [brings] to light fascinating information on the role of witchcraft in early American culture.Keywords: WITCHCRAFT WITCHES WITCH OCCULT CER... View more info
By: Golowin, Sergius
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Sphinx Verlag Basel: 1983
Seller ID: 1523103
Lightly rubbed. 1983 Trade Paperback. 406 pp. German-language study of witchcraft. View more info
By: Harris, Joanne
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Doubleday: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271875
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A few faint, small creases to front jacket flap. Pages lightly to moderately toned due to the type of paper used by publisher. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 414 pp. Everyday magic, he called it - the transformation of base matter into the stuff of dreams, layman's alchemy. Jay Mackintosh is trapped by memory in the old familiar landscapes of his childhood, more enticing than the present... View more info
By: Hebert, Anne; Dunlop-Hebert, Carol
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Crown Publishers, Inc.: 1977
Seller ID: 2267504
Former library copy--usual marks. Ink scribbles on front endpapers, title page, half-title page, and rear endpaper. 1977 Hard Cover. 198 pp. One of the greatest horror novels you've never read, Hébert's dualistic perception of existence is seen in Children of the Black Sabbath, set in Quebec in 1944, with flashbacks to the preceding decade. Satanic rituals in an isolated mountainous area and religious ceremonies performed in the Convent of the Precious Blood are juxtapo... View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 1987
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 2273030
Book club edition. Spine faded. 1987 Trade Paperback. xvii, [3], 360, [4] pp. A pioneer work in…the sexual structuring of society. This is not just another book about witchcraft. ?Edmund S. Morgan, Yale University. Confessing to familiarity with the devils, Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut officials in 1648. A wealthy Boston widow, Ann Hibbens was hanged in 1656 for casting spells on her neighbors. The case of Ann Cole, who was taken with very stran... View more info
By: Middleton, John
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Natural History Press: 1967
Seller ID: 2276974
Spine creased, wrapper edges lightly rubbed. 1967 Trade Paperback. x, 346 pp. The debate as to the borderline between 'religion' and 'magic' is an old one in anthropology; nonetheless, in general the distinction is fairly clear. We may say that the realm of magic is that in which human beings believe that they may directly affect nature and each other, for good or for ill, by their own efforts (even though the precise mechanism may not be understood by them), as distinct... View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell Company: 1968
Seller ID: 2276976
Wrappers rubbed, faint smudge on page ridge. 1968 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xiv, 442 pp. The strange and tragic witchcraft trials of the seventeenth-century England were so closely involved with politics, literature, and life that it is surprising to find how few of them have been accurately recorded in history. In this incisive study, which is one of the outstanding pioneer works of modern scholarship in this field, the author presen... View more info
By: Rice, Anne
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Ballantine Books: 1995
Seller ID: 2277903
Spine base lightly bumped, wrappers very lightly rubbed. 1995 Mass Market Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 628 pp. At the centre of Anne Rice's brilliant novel, the beautiful Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven, must flee from the darkly brutal, yet irresistible demon known as Lasher. With a dreamlike power, this wickedly seductive entity draws us through twilight paths, telling a chillingly hypnotic story of spiritual aspirations and passion... View more info
By: Rice, Anne
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Ballantine Books: 1989
Edition: Movie Tie-In Edition
Seller ID: 2277904
Movie tie-in edition. Spine creased, wrappers very lightly rubbed. 1989 Mass Market Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 491 pp. In a feat of virtuoso storytelling, Anne Rice unleashes Akasha, the queen of the damned, who has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind and destroy the vampire Lestat—in this extraordinarily sensual novel of the complex, erotic,... View more info
By: Starkey, Marion L.; Huxley, Aldous
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Time, Incorporated: 1963
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2281350
Lightly rubbed and toned. 1963 Trade Paperback. xxxii, [4], 344, [2] pp. Introduction by Aldous Huxley.. This historical narrative of the Salem witch trials takes its dialogue from actual trial records but applies modern psychiatric knowledge to the witchcraft hysteria. Starkey's sense of drama also vividly recreates the atmosphere of pity and terror that fostered the evil and suffering of this human tragedy. View more info
By: Summers, Montague; Ogden, C.K.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1926
Seller ID: 2073610
Spine faded, faint stain on rear board. 1926 Hard Cover. xv, 353 pp., 4-page terminal publisher ad lists other titles in series. 8vo. Includes 8 plates. Bibliography and index follow text. View more info
By: Virtue, Doreen; Lukomski, Judith
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Hay House, Inc.: 2005
Seller ID: 2276787
Spine creased, wrapper edges lightly rubbed, light stain along top edge of rear wrapper. 2005 Soft Cover. x, 220 pp. Crystal Therapy is a pocket guide to the healing power of 88 crystals, complete with beautiful color photographs of each one. The book is suitable for beginners, and it focuses on crystals that are easily obtainable. Readers learn which crystal to use for particular health or life issues, receive clear explanations of crystal-related terms (such as phantom... View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2197807
First edition. 2001 Hard Cover. xv, 288 pp. 9 1/4 x 6 3/8. 8vo. First edition. Women known as 'shriekers' howled, screamed, convulsed, and tore their clothes. Believed to be possessed by devils, these central figures in a cultural drama known as klikushestvo stirred various reactions among those who encountered them. While sympathetic monks and peasants tended to shelter the shriekers, others analyzed, diagnosed, and objectified them. The Russian Orthodox Church played a... View more info
