Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Vol. 2: Ancient Greece and Rome (Witchcraft and Magic in Europe)
By Unknown Author.
Description
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 2000The roots of European witchcraft and magic lie in Hebrew and other ancient Near Eastern cultures and in the Celtic, Nordic, and Germanic traditions of the Continent. For two millennia, European folklore and ritual have been imbued with the belief in the supernatural, yielding a rich trove of histories and images.The six volumes in the series Witchcraft and Magic in Europe combine traditional approaches of political, legal, and social historians with critical syntheses of cultural anthropology, historical psychology, and gen...
ISBN(s)
0812217055, 9780812217056
