Skip to content
Keep the Dark Flame Alive. Support the independent archive.
Donate
Shop Account
← Back to Library
Cover of Compendium Maleficarum by Francesco Maria Guazzo

Witchcraft & Folk Magic

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Compendium Maleficarum

By Francesco Maria Guazzo

Original publication
1608
Language
English
Pages
223
File size
Pending

Guazzo’s illustrated catalogue of witchcraft accusations and demonic pacts, documenting the fears through which early modern Europe imagined forbidden assemblies and hidden crimes.

PDF coming soon

About this text

Description

Guazzo’s illustrated catalogue of witchcraft accusations and demonic pacts, documenting the fears through which early modern Europe imagined forbidden assemblies and hidden crimes. This record is reconstructed from the original SatanWorld Library catalogue and is being reintroduced as part of Batch 02 — Original 32.

Source and rights

Rights information

Licence: PUBLIC DOMAIN

This work was included in the original SatanWorld Library as a reviewed public-domain historical text. This rebuilt catalogue record restores the title, authorship and descriptive metadata; the manuscript PDF can be attached separately when the verified source scan is available.

Continue through the shelves

Cover of The Discoverie of Witchcraft by Reginald Scot
PUBLIC DOMAIN

The Discoverie of Witchcraft

Reginald Scot

Year
1584
Language
English
Pages
692

Witchcraft & Folk Magic

Scot’s sceptical Elizabethan investigation exposes fraudulent magic and challenges witch persecution, while preserving rituals later readers detached from his critical purpose.

View Book PDF coming soon
Cover of Malleus Maleficarum by Heinrich Kramer; traditionally associated with Jacob Sprenger
PUBLIC DOMAIN

Malleus Maleficarum

Heinrich Kramer; traditionally associated with Jacob Sprenger

Year
1487
Language
English
Pages
338

Witchcraft & Folk Magic

The infamous late-medieval prosecution manual on witchcraft and heresy, preserved as evidence of how learned argument made fear administratively lethal.

View Book PDF coming soon
Cover of Egyptian Secrets of Albertus Magnus by Anonymous; traditionally attributed to Albertus Magnus
PUBLIC DOMAIN

Egyptian Secrets of Albertus Magnus

Anonymous; traditionally attributed to Albertus Magnus

Year
1915
Language
English
Pages
208

Witchcraft & Folk Magic

A Pennsylvania German book of remedies, charms and household secrets, circulated beneath a legendary name and guarded by the authority of hidden tradition.

View Book PDF coming soon