Witchcraft, magic & alchemy / by Grillot de Givry ; translated by J. Courtenay Locke ; with 10 plates in colour and 366 illustrations in the text.
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TextPublication details: Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931.; MASS. Boston. Description: 394, [1] p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. (some color), diagrams ; 30 cmOther title: - Witchcraft, magic and alchemy [Cover title]
Includes index.Imprint: MASS. Boston. 1931;
Houghton Mifflin Company, publisher.Subject(s):
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| Book | Library Company of Philadelphia | Ie3 6933.Q | Available | 314082 |
"A collection of the iconography of occultism."--Preface.
Includes index.
Book I: Sorcerers. The world of shadows as rival of the world of light ; Sacerdotal representations of the dark world ; Diabolic manifestations in the religious life ; The sorcerer as priest of the demoniacal church ; The preparation for the sabbath ; The sabbath ; The evocation of demons ; The book of the sorcerers ; Pacts with demons ; Some concrete notions about demons furnished by old authors ; Involuntary demoniacs ; Possession by demons ; Necromancy, or The evocation of the dead ; Spells ; Philtres and death-spells ; The punishment of sorcerers -- Book II: Magicians. The Jewish and Christina cabbalists ; Astrology and the macrocosm ; Astrology and the microcosm ; Metoposcopy, or the science of the frontal lines ; Physiognomy ; Cheiromancy ; Cartomancy and the Tarot ; The divinatory arts ; Rhabdomancy, or The art of using and divining-rod ; The mystery of sleep and clairvoyance ; Curative virtues of the invisible forces ; Talismans -- Book III: Alchemists. The secret doctrine ; The alchemic material and the operations of the work ; The laboratory of the alchemists and of the puffers.