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Rev. Joseph Glanvill, 'Sadducismus Triumphatus; or, A full and plain Evidence concerning Witches and Apparitions,' 1670.

Sir Walter Scott, 'Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft,' 1831.

Howard Williams, 'The Superst.i.tions of Witchcraft,' 1865.

It may be a convenience to the reader if I indicate some of the princ.i.p.al foreign authorities on this subject. Such as--Inst.i.tor and Sprenger's great work, 'Malleus Maleficarum' (Nuremberg, 1494); The monk Heisterbach's (Caesarius) 'Dialogus Miraculorum' (ed. by Strange), 1851; Cannaert's 'Proces des Sorcieres en Belgique,' 1848; Dr. W. G. Soldan's 'Geschichte der Hexenprocesse' (1843); G. C.

Horst's 'Zauber-Bibliothek, oder die Zauberei, Theurgie und Mantik, Zauberei, Hexen und Hexenprocessen, Damonen, Gespenster und Geistererscheinungen,' in 6 vols., 1821--a most learned and exhaustive work, brimful of recondite lore; Collin de Plancy's 'Dictionnaire Infernal; ou Repertoire Universel des Etres, des Livres, et des Choses qui tiennent aux Apparitions, aux Divinations, a la Magie,' etc., 1844; Michelet's 'La Sorciere' is, of course, brilliantly written; R. Reuss's 'La Sorcellerie au xvi{e}. et xvii{e}. Siecle,' 1872; Tartarotti's 'Del Congresso Notturno delle Lamie,' 1749; F. Perreaud's 'Demonologie, ou Traite des Demons et Sorciers,' 1655; H. Boguet's 'Discours des Sorciers,' 1610 (very rare); and Cotton Mather's 'Wonders of the Invisible World,' 1695--a monument of credulity, prejudice, and bigotry.

FOOTNOTE:

[53] Some authorities doubt the authors.h.i.+p; but the internal evidence seems to me to justify the claim made for it as Defoe's.

BOOKS ON MAGIC.

It may also be convenient to the reader if I enumerate a few of the princ.i.p.al authorities on the history of Magic, Sorcery, and Alchemy. A very exhaustive list will be found in the 'Bibliotheca Magica et Pneumatica,' by Graessel, 1843; and an 'Alphabetical Catalogue of Works on Hermetic Philosophy and Alchemy' is appended to the 'Lives of Alchemystical Philosophers,' by Arthur Edward Waite, 1888. For ordinary purposes the following will be found sufficient: Langlet du Fresnoy, 'Histoire de la Philosophie Hermetique,' 1742; Gabriel Naude, 'Apologie pour les Grands Hommes fauss.e.m.e.nt soupconnes de Magie,'

1625; Martin Antoine Delrio, 'Disquisitionum Magicarum, libri s.e.x,'

1599; L. F. Alfred Maury, 'La Magie et l'Astrologie dans l'Antiquite et au Moyen Age,' etc., 1860; Eus. Salverte, 'Sciences Occultes,' ed.

by Littre, 1856 (see the English translation, 'Philosophy of Magic,'

with Notes by Dr. A. Todd Thomson, 1846); Abbe de Villars, 'Entretiens du Comte de Gabalis' ('Voyages Imaginaires,' tome 34), Englished as 'The Count de Gabalis: being a diverting History of the Rosicrucian Doctrine of Spirits,' etc., 1714; Elias Ashmole, 'Theatrum Chemic.u.m Britannic.u.m;' Roger Bacon, 'Mirror of Alchemy,' 1597; Louis Figuier, 'Histoire de l'Alchimie et les Alchimistes,' 1865; Arthur Edward Waite, 'The Real History of the Rosicrucians,' 1887; Hargrave Jennings, 'The Rosicrucians,' new edit.; William G.o.dwin, 'Lives of the Necromancers,' 1834; Dr. T. Thomson, 'History of Chemistry,' 1831; 'Encyclopaedia Britannica,' _in locis_; Dr. Kopp, 'Geschichte der Chemie;' G. Rodwell, 'Birth of Chemistry,' 1874; Haerfor, 'Histoire de la Chimie,' etc., etc.

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