Many aspects of the pagan past continued to survive into the middle ages despite the introduction of Christianity, influencing forms of behaviour and the whole

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"The chapters of this book were delivered as lectures before the Lowell Institute of Boston in January and February, 1928"--Pref. "List of books": pages [285]-2

All the known theories and incidents of witchcraft in Western Europe from the fifth to the fifteenth century are brilliantly set forth in this engaging and comp

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