The History of Witchcraft and Demonology

Montague Summers

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317832669
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

THIS Bibliography does not aim at anything beyond presenting a brief and convenient hand-list of some of the more important books upon Witchcraft. It does not even purport to give all those monographs to which reference is made in the body of this study. A large number of books I have thought it superfluous to include. Thus I have omitted general works of reference such as the Encyclopœdia Britannica, Du Cange’s Glossarium ad scriptores mediœ et infimœ latinitatis, Dugdale’s Monasticon; daily companions such as the Missal, the Breviary, the Bible; Homer, Vergil, Horace, Ovid, Petronius, Lucan; Shakespeare, Marlowe, Ford, Dryden, Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy, and English classics; those histories which are on every library shelf, Gibbon, Lingard, Ranke; and such histories as the Cambridge Modern History.

On the other hand, I have of purpose included various books which may not seem at first sight to have much connexion with Witchcraft, although they are, as a matter of fact, by no means impertinent. In order to appreciate this vast subject in all its bearings, even the desultory or amateur investigator should at least be fairly grounded in theology, philosophy, and psychology. The student must be a capable theologian.

I have devoted some particular attention to the works of the demonologists, now almost universally neglected, but a close study of which is essential to the understanding of occultism and the appreciation of the grave dangers that may lurk there.

I am only too conscious of the plentiful lacunæ in this Bibliography. However, to attempt anything like a complete catalogue—if, indeed, it were possible to essay so illimitable a task—would involve the listing of very many thousands of books, and would itself require no inconsiderable a tale of volumes.

I need hardly point out that side by side with works of the highest importance it has been found necessary to include a few of no great value, which yet have their use to illustrate some one point or special phase.

GENERAL

CAILLET, ALBERT L. Manuel bibliographique des sciences psychiques ou occultes, science des Mages, hermétique, astrologie, Kabbale, Francmaçonnerie, médecine ancienne, mesmérisme, sorcellerie, singularités, etc. 3 vols. Paris, 1913.

GRÆSSE, JOHAN GEORG THEODOR. Bibliotheca magica et pneumatica. Leipzig, 1843. (In spite of obvious defects a very valuable bibliography.)

YVE-PLESSIS, R. Bibliographie jrançaise de la sorcellerie. Paris, 1900. (An immense and. exhaustive work on French books.)

AARON THE GREEK [Simon Blocquel]. La Magie rouge. Paris, 1821.

ABNER, THEODORE. Les apparitions du Diable. Brussels, 1879.

ACONTIUS. Stratagemata Satanœ. Libri VIII. Basle, 1565.

Acta Sanctorum. Par les Bollandist es. Antwerp, Tongerloo, Brussels, 1644 sqq. Reprinted, Paris, 1863 sqq.

ADHÉMAR DE CHABANNES. Chronicle: in Monumenta Germanice historica. Ed. G. A. Pertz, etc. Vol. IV.

AGOBARD, S. Opera omnia. Migne, Patrologia latina. Vol. CIV.

AGRIPPA, HEINRICH CORNELIUS La philosophie occulte de Henr. Corn. Agrippa … traduite du latin [par A. Levasseur]. 2 vols. Hague, 1727.

Œuvres magiques … mises en français par Pierre d’Aban. Rome, 1744. (Of the last rarity. There are other editions, Liège, 1788; Rome, 1800; Rome, 1744 (circa 1830); but all those are extremely scarce.)

ALANUS (Alain de Lille). Aduersus hœreticos et Waldenses. Ed. J. Masson. Paris, 1612.

ALANUS, HENRICUS. Ciceronis de Divinatione et de Fato. 1839.

ALBERT, LE PETIT. Alberti Parui Lucii libellus de mirabilibus Naturœ arcanis. (This treatise which tells how to confect philtres, make talismans, use the hand of glory, discover treasures, etc., has been very frequently translated into French, generally under the running title Les secrets merveilleux de la magie naturelle et cabalistique. …)

BL. ALBERTUS MAGNUS, O.P. Opera omnia. Ed. Father Peter Jammy, O.P. 21 vols. Lyons, 1651, etc.

De alchimia. (This treatise is said to be doubtful.)

De secretis mulierum. (This work is certainly not from the pen of the great Dominican doctor, to whom, however, it was universally ascribed. There are a vast number of editions, and translations, especially into French. Les secretz des femmes et homes … stampato in Torino par Pietro Banot, n.d. circa 1540. Les secreta admirables du grand Albert. Paris, 1895.)

Commentaria. Lib. IV, dist. 34. An maleficii impedimento aliquis potest impediri a potentia cocundi. (Nœud de l’aiguillette.)

ALEXANDER III, POPE. Epistolœ apud Regesta R. R. Pontificum. Nos. 10, 584–14, 424. Ed. Jaffé. And Löwenfeld’s Epistolœ Pontif. Rom. ineditœ. Leipzig, 1885.

ALEXIS. Secreti del reverendo Donno Alessio Piemontese, Venice, 1556. (Attributed by Girolamo Muzio to the alchemist Girolamo Ruscelli.)

ALLARD, PAUL. Histoire des persécutions. 5 vols. Paris, 1892.
Julien l’Apostat. 3 vols. Paris, 1900.

ALPHONSUS LIGUORI, S. Theologia Moralis. 9 vols. Malines, 1828. Also ed. P. Gaudé, C. S.S, R. Rome, 1905.

ALVARO, PELAYO. De Planctu Ecclesiœ. Venice, 1560.

AMBROISE DA VIGNATE (c. 1408). Tractatus de Hœreticis. Rome, 1581.

AMBROSE, S. Opera omnia. Ed. Paolo Angelo Ballerini. 6 vols. Folio. Milan, 1875.

ANANIA, GIOVANNI LORENZO. De Natura Dœmonum. Apud Vol. II. Malleus Maleficarum. 1669.

Anonymi Gesta Francorum et Aliorum Hierosolymitanorum. Oxford.

ANTONELLI, G. PROF. Lo spiritismo. Fe...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• INTRODUCTION
• I. THE WITCH: HERETIC AND ANARCHIST
• II. THE WORSHIP OF THE WITCH
• III. DEMONS AND FAMILIARS
• IV. THE SABBAT
• V. THE WITCH IN HOLY WRIT
• VI. DIABOLIC POSSESSION AND MODERN SPIRITISM
• VII. THE WITCH IN DRAMATIC LITERATURE
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX