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PUBLIC DOMAINMagic and Witchcraft
- Original publication
- 1852
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 67
- File size
- 176.5 KB
Moir follows magic from ancient priesthoods to European witch trials, revealing the persistent dream of hidden power and the violence born from believing in it.
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George Moir’s nineteenth-century historical essay surveys magic and witchcraft as recurring expressions of humanity’s desire to influence nature, fate and unseen powers. Moving from ancient traditions toward European prosecutions, it studies how fragments of philosophy, religion and fraud became entangled with public terror. Its interpretations belong to Victorian scholarship, but its central concern remains sharp. The book watches an ancient promise darken across centuries: that secret knowledge grants power, and that those suspected of possessing it may be destroyed.
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Nineteenth-century Scottish historical study
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