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Volume V
**SCHOLARLY BOOKS ON MAGIC**

Title: Battling demons : witchcraft, heresy, and reform in the late Middle Ages /
Author(s): Bailey, Michael David, 1971-
Publication: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press,
Year: 2003
Description: xii, 200 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Series: The magic in history series;
Variation: Magic in history.
Contents: Introduction: Witchcraft, heresy, and reform in the fifteenth century -- The life of Johannes Nider -- Witchcraft in the writings of Johannes Nider -- The threat of heresy : Hussites, free spirits, and beguines -- Reform of the orders, reform of the religious spirit -- The reform of the Christian world : Johannes Nider's Formicarius -- Witchcraft and reform -- Conclusion: Witchcraft and the world of the late Middle Ages -- Appendix I: Chronology of Nider's life and datable works -- Appendix II: Dating of Nider's major works used in this study -- Appendix III: Manuscript copies of Nider's treatises.
Standard No: ISBN: 0271022256 (alk. paper); 0271022264 (pbk. : alk. paper); LCCN: 2002-10394
SUBJECT(S) Descriptor: Witchcraft -- History -- to 1500.
Named Person: Nider, Johannes, ca. 1380-1438.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-195) and index.
Class Descriptors: LC: BF1569; Dewey: 133.4/3/09409024
Responsibility: Michael D. Bailey.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20020701
Update: 20030112

Title: Magic and modernity : interfaces of revelation and concealment /
Author(s): Meyer, Birgit. ; Pels, Peter.
Publication: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
Projected Date: 0307
Year: 2003
Description: p. cm.
Language: English
Standard No: ISBN: 0804744637; 0804744645; LCCN: 2002-14751 SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Magic. Divination. Witchcraft. Spiritualism.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references and index.
Class Descriptors: LC: GN475.3; Dewey: 306.4
Responsibility: edited by Birgit Meyer and Peter Pels.
Document Type: Book

Title: John Dee's five books of mystery : original sourcebook of Enochian magic : from the collected works known as Mysteriorum libri quinque /
Author(s): Dee, John, 1527-1608. ; Peterson, Joseph H.
Publication: York Beach, ME : Red Wheel/Weiser,
Projected Date: 0302
Year: 2003
Description: p. cm.
Language: English
Standard No: ISBN: 1578631785 (alk. paper); LCCN: 2002-151947
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Enochian magic.
Note(s): Originally published: The five books of mystical experience. [S.l.] : A. Megan, 1985, in the series: Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks./ Includes bibliographical references and index.
Class Descriptors: LC: BF1623.E55; Dewey: 133 Other Titles: Five books of mystery Responsibility: Joseph H. Peterson, editor.
Document Type: Book

Title: Black magic : religion and the African American conjuring tradition /
Author(s): Chireau, Yvonne Patricia, 1961-
Publication: Berkeley : University of California Press,
Projected Date: 0310
Year: 2003
Description: p. cm.
Language: English
Contents: "Our religion and superstition was all mixed up" -- Conjure, Christianity and African American supernatural traditions -- "Africa was a land a' magic power since de beginnin' a history" -- Old world sources of conjuring traditions -- "Folks can do yuh lots of harm" -- African American supernatural harming traditions -- "Medical doctors can't do you no good" -- Conjure and African American traditions of healing -- "We all believed in hoodoo" -- Conjure and Black American cultural traditions.
Standard No: ISBN: 0520209877 (alk. paper); LCCN: 2002-151315
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: African Americans -- Religion.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references and index.
Class Descriptors: LC: BR563.N4; Dewey: 291.3/2/08996073
Responsibility: Yvonne P. Chireau.
Document Type: Book

Title: Witchcraft and magic in Europe : the Middle Ages /
Author(s): Jolly, Karen Louise. ; Peters, Edward. ; Raudvere, Catharina. ; Ankarloo, Bengt,; 1935- ; Clark, Stuart.
Publication: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,
Year: 2002
Description: xiv, 280 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Series: Witchcraft and magic in Europe;
Variation: Athlone history of witchcraft and magic in Europe.
Contents: Medieval magic : definitions, beliefs, practices / Karen Jolly -- Trolldómr in early medieval Scandinavia / Catharina Raudvere -- The medieval church and state on superstition, magic and witchcraft : from Augustine to the sixteenth century / Edward Peters.
Standard No: ISBN: 0812236165 (alk. paper); 0812217861 (pbk.)
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor:
Magic -- Europe -- History -- Middle Ages.
Witchcraft -- Europe -- History -- Middle Ages.
Magic -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Note(s): "First published 2001 by The Athlone Press"--T.p. verso./ Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-272) and index.
Class Descriptors: LC: BF1569
Other Titles: Middle Ages
Responsibility: Karen Jolly, Catharina Raudvere, Edward Peters ; edited by Bengt Ankarloo and Stuart Clark.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20020412
Update: 20020425

Title: Magic and ritual in the ancient world /
Author(s): Mirecki, Paul Allan. ; Meyer, Marvin W.
Publication: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,
Year: 2002
Description: xvii, 468 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman world,; v. 141;
Standard No: ISBN: 9004116761 (alk. paper); 9004104062; Series ISSN: 0927-7633 ;; LCCN: 2001-52796
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor:Magic, Ancient. Magie ancienne.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references and index.
Class Descriptors: LC: BF1591; Dewey: 133.4/3/093
Responsibility: edited by Paul Mirecki and Marvin Meyer.
Vendor Info: Otto Harrassowitz (HARR) 161.00 DEM
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20011031
Update: 20020919

Title: Nine worlds of seid-magic : ecstasy and neo-shamanism in north European paganism /
Author(s): Blain, Jenny.
Publication: London ; New York : Routledge,
Year: 2002
Description: xiii, 185 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Standard No: ISBN: 041525650X; 0415256518 (pbk.); LCCN: 2001-41828
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor:Shamanism -- Scandinavia -- Miscellanea.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-178) and index.
Class Descriptors: LC: BF1622.S34; Dewey: 293
Responsibility: Jenny Blain.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20010621
Update: 20020103

Title: Magic, witchcraft, and ghosts in the Greek and Roman worlds : a sourcebook /
Author(s): Ogden, Daniel.
Publication: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
Year: 2002
Description: x, 353 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language: English
Standard No: ISBN: 019513575X (alk. paper); 0195151232 (pbk. : alk. paper); LCCN: 2001-36667
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Magic, Greek. Magic, Roman.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-337) and indexes.
Class Descriptors: LC: BF1591; Dewey: 133.4/0938
Responsibility: Daniel Ogden.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20010712
Update: 20030112

Title: Mesopotamian witchcraft : toward a history and understanding of Babylonian witchcraft beliefs and literature /
Author(s): Abusch, I. Tzvi.
Publication: Leiden : Brill Styx,
Year: 2002
Description: xvi, 314 p. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Series: Ancient magic and divination ;; 5;
Standard No: ISBN: 9004123873
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Witchcraft -- Iraq -- History.
Geographic: Mesopotamia -- Antiquities. Iraq -- Religious life and customs.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-305) and index.
Class Descriptors: LC: BF1567
Responsibility: by Tzvi Abusch.
Vendor Info: Otto Harrassowitz (HARR) 75.00 DEM
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20020617
Update: 20020826

Title: Hex and spellwork : the magical practices of the Pennsylvania Dutch /
Author(s): Herr, Karl. Publication: York Beach, ME : Red Wheel/Weiser,
Year: 2002
Description: xii, 144 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Contents: The tradition and the work -- Health and healing -- The painted magic of hex signs -- The spoken magic of spellwork -- The written magic of the himmelbrief -- The magic of natural objects -- Superstition or practical reality?
Standard No: ISBN: 1578631823 (pbk.); LCCN: 2002-8481
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Magic -- Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania Dutch -- Religion.
Folklore -- Pennsylvania.
Geographic: Pennsylvania -- Religious life and customs.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-144).
Class Descriptors: LC: BF1622.U6; Dewey: 133/.4/09748
Responsibility: Karl Herr.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20020603
Update: 20030115

Title: Liber iuratus honorii : a critical edition of the latin version of the Sworn Book of Honorius /
Author(s): Hedegård, Gösta. ; Honourius. ; Liber iuratus honorii.
Publication: Stockholm : Almovist & Wiksell International,
Year: 2002
Description: 336 p. : ill., facsims. ; 25 cm.
Language: English; Text in English and Latin.
Series: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis.; Studia Latina Stockholmiensia,; 48;
Standard No: ISBN: 9122019707 (pbk.); Series ISSN: 0491-2764 ;
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Magic. Rites and ceremonies.
Note(s): Errata slip inserted./ Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Stockholm University, 2002./ Includes bibliographical references.
Class Descriptors: LC: BF1623.R6
Other Titles: Critical edition of the later version of the Sworn book of Honorius; Sworn book of Honourious Responsibility: by Gösta Hedegård.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20020627
Update: 20021028

Title: Magia, alchimia, scienza dal '400 al '700 : l'influsso di Ermete Trismegisto = Magic, alchemy and science, 15th-18th centuries : the influence of Hermes Trismegistus /
Author(s): Gilly, Carlos. ; Heertum, Cis van.
Corp Author(s): Biblioteca nazionale marciana.
Publication: Firenze : Centro Di,
Year: 2002-
Description: v. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Language: Italian; English and Italian.
Standard No: ISBN: 8870383598
SUBJECT(S) Descriptor: Science and magic -- History -- Exhibitions.
Alchemy -- History -- Exhibitions.
Magic -- History -- Exhibitions.
Named Person: Hermes, Trismegistus -- Exhibitions.
Note(s): Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Venice, Biblioteca nazionale Marciana, 2002./ Includes bibliographical references.
Class Descriptors: LC: BF1598.H6; Dewey: 135
Other Titles: Magic, alchemy and science, 15th-18th centuries : the influence of Hermes Trismegistus Responsibility: a cura di/edited by Carlos Gilly, Cis van Heertum.
Vendor Info: Casalini Libri (CASA) 85.00 EUR
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20020805
Update: 20021010

Title: Behind the crystal ball : magic, science, and the occult from antiquity through the New Age /
Author(s): Aveni, Anthony F.
Publication: Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, Edition: Rev. ed.
Year: 2002
Description: xvii, 361 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Contents: Middle East exotica -- The ancient art of hepatoscopy -- The Greek paradox -- Magic in the Roman Empire -- The new outcasts -- Knowledge through number and the Word -- Pathways to knowledge -- Resurrection of the Kabbalah -- Music of the spheres -- Two sides of the coin of Alchemy -- Rise of the Clear Seer -- Medieval astrology -- The devil and the proliferation of good and evil -- It's witchcraft -- Summary: who turned on the lights? -- Rochester rap -- Before Hydesville -- Mr. Sludge -- DDH to HPB -- After the foxes -- My body, my map -- Summary: a light that failed? -- Who's a magician? -- Magic in the twentieth century -- Different time, same channel -- PK wars -- The personalized magic of healing -- You are what you eat -- Come fly with me -- Life after life -- Crystals -- Geomancy -- Summary: on shifting ground -- Is magic a religion? -- Magic and science -- Anthropologists encounter the occult -- Summary: crossing curves in an age of interconnectedness.
Standard No: ISBN: 0870816713 (pbk. : alk. paper); LCCN: 2002-10184
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Magic -- History. Occultism and science.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-346) and index.
Class Descriptors: LC: BF1589; Dewey: 133.4/3/09
Responsibility: Anthony Aveni.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20020626
Update: 20030110

Title: The pagan dream of the Renaissance /
Author(s): Godwin, Joscelyn.
Publication: Grand Rapids, MI : Phanes Press,
Year: 2002
Description: vi, 292 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: English Contents: Seduction by the gods -- The strife of love in a dream -- Re-ordering the world -- The enchantment of public spaces -- Private microcosms -- Marvels of art and nature -- Grotesqueries -- Garden magic -- Joyous festivals -- The birth of opera -- Versailles and after.
Standard No: ISBN: 1890482846 (alk. paper); LCCN: 2002-29314
SUBJECT(S) Descriptor: Mythology, Classical. Renaissance.
Note(s): "An Alexandria book"./ Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-282) and index.
Class Descriptors: LC: BL727; Dewey: 292/.007/04
Responsibility: Joscelyn Godwin.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20020716
Update: 20021213

Title: The queen's conjurer : the science and magic of Dr. John Dee, adviser to Queen Elizabeth I /
Author(s): Woolley, Benjamin.
Publication: New York : Henry Holt,
Edition: 1st Owl Books ed.
Year: 2002, 2001
Description: xii, 355 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Standard No: ISBN: 0805065105 (pbk.)
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Occultists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Scientists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Astrologers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Named Person: Dee, John, 1527-1608.
Geographic: Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Biography.
Note(s): "An Owl book."/ Reprint. Originally published: c2001./ Includes bibliographical references (p. 334-342) and index.
Class Descriptors: LC: BF1598.D5; Dewey: 133/.092; B
Responsibility: Benjamin Woolley.
Material Type: Biography (bio)
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20020427
Update: 20020427

Title: Religion and magic in ancient Egypt /
Author(s): David, Rosalie.
Publication: London : Penguin,
Year: 2002
Description: xvii, 487 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language: English
Standard No: ISBN: 0140262520
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Magic, Egyptian.
Geographic: Egypt -- Religion.
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references and index.
Class Descriptors: Dewey: 299.31
Responsibility: Rosalie David.
Document Type: Book
Entry: 20021014
Update: 20021015

Title: Witchcraft persecutions in Bavaria : popular magic, religious zealotry and reason of state in early modern Europe /
Author(s): Behringer, Wolfgang.
Publication: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
Year: 2002, 1997
Description: 503 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language: English; Translated from the German.
Series: Variation: Past and present publications
Standard No: ISBN: 0521525101
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Witchcraft -- Germany -- Bavaria -- History.
Witches -- Crimes against -- Germany -- Bavaria -- History.
Note(s): Originally published: 1997./ Includes bibliographical references.
Class Descriptors: Dewey: 133.4309433
Other Titles: Hexenverfolgung in Bayern. English
Responsibility: Wolfgang Behringer.
Document Type: Book

Title: Celtic magic / 
Author(s): Page, James Lynn.  
Publication: London : Foulsham, 
Year: 2002  
Description: 160 p. : p., ill., ports. ;, 15 cm. 
Language: English 
Series: Essentials;  
Standard No: ISBN: 0572027362 
 SUBJECT(S)  
Descriptor: Mythology, Celtic. 
Magic, Celtic. 
Celts -- Rites and ceremonies.  
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references and index. 
Class Descrpt: Dewey: 299.16 
Responsibility: James Lynn Page. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20011029 
Update: 20011030 
Accession No: OCLC: 47356380

Title: The invisible college :
The Royal Society, freemasonry and the birth of modern science / 
Author(s): Lomas, Robert.  
Publication: London : Headline, 
Year: 2002  
Description: 320 p. : p., col. ill. ;, 24 cm. 
Language: English 
Standard No: ISBN: 074723969X 
Abstract: Until the 16th Century people belived in magic as a way of explaining how the world worked. Then magic was killed and science took its place as a group of men decided to study the mechanisms of nature. 
 SUBJECT(S)  
Descriptor: Freemasonry -- Great Britain -- History. 
Science -- Great Britain -- History.  
Named Corp: Royal Society.  
Class Descrpt: Dewey: 509 
Responsibility: Robert Lomas. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20010814 
Update: 20010925 
Accession No: OCLC: 48025485 

Title: Magic, witchcraft, and ghosts in the Greek and Roman worlds :
a sourcebook / 
Author(s): Ogden, Daniel.  
Publication: New York : Oxford University Press, 
Projected Date: 0207 
Year: 2002  
Description: p. cm. p. 
Language: English 
Standard No: ISBN: 019513575X (alk. paper); 0195151232 (pbk. : alk. paper); LCCN: 2001-36667 
 SUBJECT(S)  
Descriptor: Magic, Greek. 
Magic, Roman.  
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references and index. 
Class Descrpt: LC: BF1591; Dewey: 133.4/0938 
Responsibility: Daniel Ogden. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20010712 
Update: 20010729 
Accession No: OCLC: 47667212 

Title: Croyances et conduites magiques dans la France du XVIIe siècle d'après l'affaire des poisons :
Thèse de doctorat en histoire, Université Pierre Mendès-France, UFR des sciences humaines, 1998 / 
Author(s): Chautant, Gisèle.  
Publication: Villeneuve-d'Ascq : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 
Year: 2001  
Description: 480 p. p. 
Language: French 
Series: Thèse à la carte;  
Standard No: ISBN: 2284019404 
 SUBJECT(S)  
Identifier: History; 17th century; Occultism; Magic; Criminology 
Class Descrpt: Dewey: 944 
Responsibility: Gisèle Chautant ; directeur de recherche Jacques Solé. 
Vendor Info: Jean Touzot Libraire Editeur (TOUZ) 38,11 EURO 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20010910 
Update: 20011124 
Accession No: OCLC: 48476628 

Title: Magic and ritual in the ancient world / 
Author(s): Mirecki, Paul Allan. ; Meyer, Marvin,; 1948-  
Publication: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 
Projected Date: 0112 
Year: 2001  
Description: p. cm. p. 
Language: English 
Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman world,; v. 141;  
Standard No: ISBN: 9004116761; Series ISSN: 0927-7633 ;; LCCN: 2001-52796 
 SUBJECT(S)  
Descriptor: Magic, Ancient.  
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references and index. 
Class Descrpt: LC: BF1591; Dewey: 133.4/3/093 
Responsibility: edited by Paul Mirecki and Marvin Meyer. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20011031 
Update: 20011117 
Accession No: OCLC: 48450087

Title: Sexo y magia sexual en el antiguo Perú =
Sex and sexual magic in ancient Peru / 
Author(s): Kauffmann Doig, Federico.  
Publication: Lima, Perú : Quebecor World Perú, 
Year: 2001  
Description: 230 p. : p., ill. (some col.) ;, 29 cm. 
Language: Spanish; Spanish and English on facing pages. 
Standard No: ISBN: 9972927504 
 SUBJECT(S)  
Descriptor: Indians of South America -- Peru -- Sexual behavior. 
Indians of South America -- Peru -- Antiquities. 
Indian pottery -- Peru.  
Geographic: Peru -- Antiquities.  
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-228) and index. 
Class Descrpt: LC: F3429.3.S45 
Other Titles: Sex and sexual magic in ancient Peru 
Responsibility: Federico Kauffmann-Doig. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20011030 
Update: 20011030 
Accession No: OCLC: 48233158 

Title: Pedraforca màgic :
llegendes i rondalles / 
Author(s): Artero i Novella, Isabel, 1955-  
Publication: Sant Vicenç de Castellet : Farell,
Edition: 1. ed. 
Year: 2001  
Description: 126 p., [16] p. of plates : p., ill. (some col.) ;, 22 cm. 
Language: Catalan 
Series: Col·lecció popular.; Llegendes ;; 6;  
Standard No: ISBN: 8495695022; LCCN: 2001-423525 
 SUBJECT(S)  
Descriptor: Legends -- Spain -- Catalonia. 
Fairy tales -- Spain -- Catalonia.  
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-118). 
Class Descrpt: LC: GR237.C39; Dewey: 398.2/0946/7 
Responsibility: Isabel Artero i Novella. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20010531 
Update: 20011031 
Accession No: OCLC: 48038314 

Title: Satan's conspiracy :
magic and conspiracy in sixteenth-century Scotland / 
Author(s): Maxwell-Stuart, P. G.  
Publication: East Linton : Tuckwell Press, 
Year: 2001  
Description: 225 p. ; p., 24 cm. 
Language: English 
Standard No: ISBN: 1862321361 
 SUBJECT(S)  
Descriptor: Magic -- Scotland -- History -- 16th century. 
Witchcraft -- Scotland -- History -- 16th century.  
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references and index. 
Responsibility: P.G. Maxwell-Stuart. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20010903 
Update: 20010904 
Accession No: OCLC: 47902690 

Title: Witchcraft and magic in Europe.
Vol. 4, The period of the witch trials / 
Author(s): Ankarloo, Bengt. ; Clark, Stuart. ; Monter, William,; 1936-  
Publication: London : Athlone, 
Year: 2001  
Description: 250 p. p. 
Language: English 
Series: Variation: The Athlone history of witchcraft and magic in Europe 
Standard No: ISBN: 0485890046; 0485891042 (PBK.) 
 SUBJECT(S)  
Descriptor: Witchcraft -- Europe -- History. 
Magic -- Europe -- History. 
Magic -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.  
Class Descrpt: Dewey: 133.43094 
Responsibility: Bengt Anakarloo, Stuart Clark & William Monter. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20010424 
Update: 20010912 
Accession No: OCLC: 47869024 

Title: Nine worlds of seid-magic :
ecstasy and neo-shamanism in northern European paganism / 
Author(s): Blain, Jenny.  
Publication: London ; New York : Routledge, 
Projected Date: 0110 
Year: 2001  
Description: p. cm. p. 
Language: English 
Standard No: ISBN: 041525650X; 0415256518 (pbk.); LCCN: 2001-41828 
 SUBJECT(S)  
Descriptor: Shamanism -- Scandinavia -- Miscellanea.  
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references. 
Class Descrpt: LC: BF1622.S34; Dewey: 293 
Responsibility: Jenny Blain. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20010621 
Update: 20011009 
Accession No: OCLC: 47625348 

 

Title: Ancient magic and ritual power / 
Author(s): Meyer, Marvin W. ; Mirecki, Paul Allan.  
Publication: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Academic Publishers, 
Projected Date: 0108 
Year: 2001 1995 
Description: p. cm. p. 
Language: English 
Standard No: ISBN: 0391041525; LCCN: 2001-37755 
 SUBJECT(S)  
Descriptor: Magic, Ancient.  
Note(s): Originally published: Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1995. (Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 129)/ Includes bibliographical references. 
Class Descrpt: LC: BF1591; Dewey: 133.4/3/093 
Responsibility: edited by Marvin Meyer and Paul Mirecki. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20010620 
Update: 20010817 
Accession No: OCLC: 47221818 

Title: Between magic and religion :
interdisciplinary studies in ancient Mediterranean religion and society / 
Author(s): Asirvatham, Sulochana,; 1970- ; Pache, Corinne Ondine,; 1963- ; Watrous, John,; 1964-  
Publication: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, 
Year: 2001  
Description: xxix, 212 p. : p., ill. ;, 23 cm. 
Language: English 
Series: Greek studies;  
Standard No: ISBN: 0847699684 (alk. paper); 0847699692 (pbk. : alk. paper); LCCN: 2001-41692 
 SUBJECT(S)  
Descriptor: Magic.  
Geographic: Mediterranean Region -- Religion.  
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-205) and index. 
Class Descrpt: LC: BL687; Dewey: 200/.938 
Responsibility: edited by Sulochana R. Asirvatham, Corinne Ondine Pache, and John Watrous. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20010612 
Update: 20011115 
Accession No: OCLC: 47177003 

Title: Medicine, magic, and religion :
the Fitzpatrick lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1915 and 1916 / 
Author(s): Rivers, W. H. R. 1864-1922.  (William Halse Rivers), 
Publication: London ; New York : Routledge, 
Year: 2001 1927 
Description: viii, 136 p. ; p., 20 cm. 
Language: English 
Series: Routledge classics;  
Standard No: ISBN: 0415254035 (pbk.); LCCN: 2001-41224 
 SUBJECT(S)  
Descriptor: Traditional medicine. 
Medicine -- Religious aspects. 
Religion. 
Magic.  
Note(s): Originally published: [2nd ed.]. London : K. Paul, Trench, Trubner ; New York : Harcourt, Brace, 1927, in series: International library of psychology, philosophy, and scientific method./ Includes bibliographical references and index. 
Class Descrpt: LC: GN477; Dewey: 306.4/5 
Responsibility: W.H.R. Rivers ; with a preface by G. Elliot Smith. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20010601 
Update: 20010719 
Accession No: OCLC: 47100808 

Title: Mamluk art :
splendour and magic during the reign of the Sultans / 
Author(s): El-Banasi, Salah Ahmed.  
Publication: [S.l.] : Museum With No Frontiers, 
Year: 2001  
Description: 224 p. : p., col. ill., plans 
Language: English 
Standard No: ISBN: 1874044376 
 SUBJECT(S)  
Descriptor: Mamelukes. 
Art, Mameluke. 
Architecture, Mameluke.  
Class Descrpt: Dewey: 709.17671 
Responsibility: curated by Salah Ahmed El-Bansai. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20010512 
Update: 20010911 
Accession No: OCLC: 46984328 

Title: Witchcraft and magic in Europe. 
Author(s): Cryer, Frederick. ; Thomsen, Marie-Louise.  
Year: 2001  
Description: 250 p. p. 
Language: English 
Series: Variation: Athlone history of witchcraft and magic in Europe. 
Standard No: ISBN: 0485890011; 0485891018 (pbk.) 
 SUBJECT(S)  
Descriptor: Magic -- Europe -- History. 
Witchcraft -- Europe -- History. 
Magic -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.  
Class Descrpt: Dewey: 133.43094 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20000814 
Update: 20010731 
Accession No: OCLC: 46846843 

Title: Witchcraft and magic in Europe. 
Author(s): Jolly, Karen Louise. ; Peters, Edward. ; Raudvere, Catharina.  
Year: 2001  
Description: 288 p. p. 
Language: English 
Series: Variation: Athlone history of witchcraft and magic in Europe. 
Standard No: ISBN: 0485890038; 0485891034 (pbk.) 
 SUBJECT(S)  
Descriptor: Magic -- Europe -- History. 
Witchcraft -- Europe -- History. 
Magic -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.  
Class Descrpt: Dewey: 133.43094 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20010424 
Update: 20010731 
Accession No: OCLC: 46846823 

Title: Plots and powers :
magical structures in medieval narrative / 
Author(s): Wilson, Anne, 1934-  
Publication: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 
Year: 2001  
Description: xvi, 234 p. ; p., 24 cm. 
Language: English 
Standard No: ISBN: 0813021219 (alk. paper); LCCN: 2001-27594 
 SUBJECT(S)  
Descriptor: Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism. 
Magic in literature.  
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-229) and indexes. 
Class Descrpt: LC: PN682.M34; Dewey: 809/.9337 
Responsibility: Anne Wilson. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20010328 
Update: 20010919 
Accession No: OCLC: 46671131 

Title: A general theory of magic / 
Author(s): Mauss, Marcel, 1872-1950.  
Publication: London ; New York : Routledge, 
Year: 2001 1972 
Description: vi, 183 p. ; p., 21 cm. 
Language: English 
Series: Routledge classics;  
Standard No: ISBN: 0415255503; 0415253969 (pbk.); LCCN: 2001-41610 
 SUBJECT(S)  
Descriptor: Magic.  
Note(s): Originally published: London : Routledge and K. Paul, 1972./ Includes index. 
Class Descrpt: LC: BF1611; Dewey: 133.4/3 
Responsibility: Marcel Mauss ; translated by Robert Brain ; foreword by D.F. Pocock. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20010605 
Update: 20010726 
Accession No: OCLC: 46651064 

Title: Witchcraft and magic in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe / 
Author(s): Scarre, Geoffrey. ; Callow, John.  
Publication: Basingstoke : Palgrave,
Edition: 2nd ed. 
Year: 2001  
Description: 112 p. ; p., 22 cm. 
Language: English 
Series: Variation: Studies in European history. 
Standard No: ISBN: 0333920821 
 SUBJECT(S)  
Descriptor: Magic -- Europe -- History -- 16th century. 
Magic -- Europe -- History -- 17th century. 
Witchcraft -- Europe -- History -- 16th century. 
Witchcraft -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.  
Note(s): Previous ed.: Basingstoke: Macmillan Education, 1987./ Bibliography./ Includes index. 
Class Descrpt: Dewey: 133.43094 
Responsibility: Geoffrey Scarre and John Callow. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20010322 
Update: 20010403 
Accession No: OCLC: 46650704 

Title: Magic in the Roman world :
Pagans, Jews and Christians / 
Author(s): Janowitz, Naomi.  
Publication: London : Routledge, 
Year: 2001  
Description: 144 p. ; p., 22 cm. 
Language: English 
Series: Variation: Religion in the first Christian centuries. 
Standard No: ISBN: 041520206X; 0415202078 (pbk.) 
 SUBJECT(S)  
Descriptor: Magic, Roman. 
Magic -- Religious aspects.  
Class Descrpt: Dewey: 133.430937 
Responsibility: Naomi Janowitz. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20010319 
Update: 20010327 
Accession No: OCLC: 46601729  

Title: Way of natural magic / 
Author(s): Pennick, Nigel, 1946-  
Publication: London : Thorsons, 
Year: 2001  
Description: xi, 148 p. : p., ill. ;, 20 cm. 
Language: English 
Standard No: ISBN: 0722540388 
 SUBJECT(S)  
Descriptor: Magic.  
Class Descrpt: Dewey: 133.43 
Responsibility: Nigel Pennick. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20011029 
Update: 20011030 
Accession No: OCLC: 46503118 

Title: Biblical and pagan societies / 
Author(s): Cryer, Fredrick. ; Thomsen, Marie-Louise. ; Ankarloo, Bengt,; 1935- ; Clark, Stuart.  
Publication: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 
Projected Date: 0106 
Year: 2001  
Description: p. cm. p. 
Language: English 
Series: Witchcraft and magic in Europe;  
Standard No: ISBN: 0812236157 (alk. paper); 0812217853 (pbk. : alk. paper); LCCN: 2001-27391 
 SUBJECT(S)  
Descriptor: Witchcraft -- Middle East -- History. 
Magic, Assyro-Babylonian. 
Magic, Jewish.  
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references and index. 
Class Descrpt: LC: BF1567; Dewey: 133.4/3/0933 
Responsibility: Fredrick Cryer, Marie-Louise Thomsen ; edited by Bengt Ankarloo and Stuart Clark. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20010301 
Update: 20010317 
Accession No: OCLC: 46472229 

Title: Magic and magicians in the Greco-Roman world / 
Author(s): Dickie, Matthew.  
Publication: London ; New York : Routledge, 
Year: 2001  
Description: viii, 380 p. ; p., 25 cm. 
Language: English 
Standard No: ISBN: 0415249821; LCCN: 2001-19134 
 SUBJECT(S)  
Descriptor: Magic, Ancient. 
Magic, Greek. 
Magic, Roman.  
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-374) and index. 
Class Descrpt: LC: BF1591; Dewey: 133.4/3/0938 
Responsibility: Matthew W. Dickie. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20010201 
Update: 20010725 
Accession No: OCLC: 45951576 

Title: Visions of enchantment :
essays on magic in fiction / 
Author(s): Parry, Hugh, 1934-  
Publication: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 
Year: 2001  
Description: xii, 256 p. ; p., 22 cm. 
Language: English 
Standard No: ISBN: 0761819428 (cloth : alk. paper); 0761819436 (pbk. : alk. paper); LCCN: 00-68304  
 SUBJECT(S)  
Descriptor: Magic in literature.  
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-252) and index. 
Class Descrpt: LC: PN56.M23; Dewey: 809/.9337 
Responsibility: Hugh Parry. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20001207 
Update: 20010411 
Accession No: OCLC: 45532512 

Title: Magic in the Roman world :
pagans, Jews, and Christians / 
Author(s): Janowitz, Naomi.  
Publication: London ; New York : Routledge, 
Year: 2001  
Description: xiii, 145 p. ; p., 22 cm. 
Language: English 
Series: Religion in the first Christian centuries;  
Standard No: ISBN: 041520206X; 0415202078 (pbk.); LCCN: 00-66491  
 SUBJECT(S)  
Descriptor: Magic, Ancient. 
Rites and ceremonies -- History.  
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-128) and indexes. 
Class Descrpt: LC: BF1591; Dewey: 133.4/3/09015 
Responsibility: Naomi Janowitz. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20001114 
Update: 20010810 
Accession No: OCLC: 45439921 

Title: The queen's conjurer :
the science and magic of Dr. John Dee, adviser to Queen Elizabeth I / 
Author(s): Woolley, Benjamin.  
Publication: New York : Henry Holt,
Edition: 1st ed. 
Year: 2001  
Description: xii, 355 p. : p., 1 map ;, 25 cm. 
Language: English 
Standard No: ISBN: 0805065091; National Library of Canada: 101087456; LCCN: 00-53919  
 SUBJECT(S)  
Descriptor: Occultists -- Great Britain -- Biography. 
Scientists -- Great Britain -- Biography. 
Astrologers -- Great Britain -- Biography. 
Magic -- history -- England -- Biography.  
Named Person: Dee, John, 1527-1608. 
Dee, John, 1527-1608.  
Geographic: Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Biography.  
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. 334-342) and index. 
Class Descrpt: LC: BF1598.D5; Dewey: 133/.092; B; NLM: 2001 D-738; WZ 100 
Responsibility: Benjamin Woolley. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20001023 
Update: 20010713 
Accession No: OCLC: 45376415 

Title: The triumph of the moon :
a history of modern pagan witchcraft / 
Author(s): Hutton, Ronald.  
Publication: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 
Year: 2001 1999 
Description: xv, 486 p. ; p., 20 cm. 
Language: English 
TOC: MACROCOSM: Finding a language -- Finding a goddess -- Finding a god -- Finding a structure -- Finding a high magic -- Finding a low magic -- Finding a folklore -- Finding a witchcraft -- Matrix -- God (and goddess) parents -- MICROCOSM: Gerald Gardner -- Gerald's people -- The wider context: hostility -- The wider context: reinforcement -- Old craft, new craft -- The man in black -- Royalty from the north -- Uncle Sam and the goddess -- Coming of age -- Grandchildren of the shadows. 
Standard No: ISBN: 0192854496 
 SUBJECT(S)  
Descriptor: Witchcraft -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. 
Witchcraft -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. 
Neopaganism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. 
Neopaganism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.  
Geographic: Great Britain -- Religion -- 19th century. 
Great Britain -- Religion -- 20th century.  
Note(s): Originally published: 1999./ Includes bibliographical references and index. 
Class Descrpt: Dewey: 133.430941 
Responsibility: Ronald Hutton. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20001029 
Update: 20010724 
Accession No: OCLC: 45338136 

Title: Amulets and magic :
the original texts with translations and descriptions of a long series of Egyptian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Hebrew, Christian, Gnostic and Muslim amulets and talismans and magical figures ... / 
Author(s): Budge, E. A. Wallis, Sir  (Ernest Alfred Wallis) 
Publication: London : Kegan Paul, 
Year: 2001  
Description: xxxix, 543 p. : p., ill. ;, 25 cm. 
Language: English 
Series: The Kegan Paul library of arcana;  
Standard No: ISBN: 0710307136 
 SUBJECT(S)  
Descriptor: Amulets. 
Talismans.  
Note(s): Includes index. 
Class Descrpt: Dewey: 133.44 
Responsibility: Sir E.A. Wallis Budge. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20011022 
Update: 20011023 
Accession No: OCLC: 45307252 

Title: Encyclopedia of occultism & parapsychology / 
Author(s): Melton, J. Gordon.  
Publication: Detroit : Gale Research Inc.,
Edition: 5th ed. 
Year: 2001  
Description: 2 v. ; p., 29 cm. 
Language: English 
TOC: v. 1. A-L -- v.2. M-Z. 
Standard No: ISBN: 0810385708 (set); 081039488X (v.1); 0810394898 (v.2); National Library of Canada: 100968830 
 SUBJECT(S)  
Descriptor: Occultism -- Encyclopedias. 
Parapsychology -- Encyclopedias. 
Occultism -- Encyclopedias -- English. 
Parapsychology -- Encyclopedias -- English.  
Note(s): "A compendium of information on the occult sciences, magic, demonology, superstitions, spiritism, mysticism, metaphysics, psychical science, and parapsychology."/ Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
Class Descrpt: LC: BF1407; Dewey: 133.03; NLM: BF 1407 
Other Titles: Encyclopedia of occultism and parapsychology 
Responsibility: edited by J. Gordon Melton. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20001023 
Update: 20010926 
Accession No: OCLC: 45211020 

Title: Hopi stories of witchcraft, shamanism, and magic / 
Author(s): Malotki, Ekkehart. ; Gary, Ken.  
Publication: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 
Year: 2001  
Description: lvii, 290 p. : p., ill. ;, 24 cm. 
Language: English 
Standard No: ISBN: 0803232179 (alk. paper); LCCN: 00-50316  
 SUBJECT(S)  
Descriptor: Hopi Indians -- Folklore. 
Tales -- Arizona. 
Hopi magic.  
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references. 
Class Descrpt: LC: E99.H7; Dewey: 398.2/089/9745 
Responsibility: Ekkehart Malotki and Ken Gary ; illustrations by Karen Knorowski. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20001002 
Update: 20010428 
Accession No: OCLC: 45172791 

Title: Medicine, magic and religion :
the Fitzpatrick Lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1915 and 1916 / 
Author(s): Rivers, W. H. R. 1864-1922.  (William Halse Rivers), 
Publication: London : Routledge, 
Year: 2001 1924 
Description: viii, 136 p. ; p., 20 cm. 
Language: English 
Series: Routledge classics; 
Standard No: ISBN: 0415254035 
 SUBJECT(S) 
Descriptor: Medical anthropology. 
Traditional medicine -- Psychological aspects. 
Traditional medicine -- Religious aspects. 
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric. 
Note(s): Originally published: London : Kegan Paul, Trench and Trubner, 1924./ Includes index. 
Class Descrpt: Dewey: 306.461 
Responsibility: W.H.R. Rivers ; with a preface by G. Elliot Smith. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20010611 
Update: 20010910 
Accession No: OCLC: 46651297 

Title: Spiritual merchants :
religion, magic, and commerce / 
Author(s): Long, Carolyn Morrow. 
Publication: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press,
Edition: 1st ed. 
Year: 2001 
Description: xxix, 314 p. : p., ill. ;, 23 cm. 
Language: English 
Standard No: ISBN: 1572331097 (cloth); 1572331100 (pbk.); LCCN: 00-9886 
 SUBJECT(S) 
Descriptor: Charms -- United States. 
Talismans -- United States. 
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric -- United States. 
Afro-Americans -- Religion. 
Afro-Caribbean cults -- United States. 
Religious articles -- United States. 
Religious supplies industry -- United States. 
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-302) and index. 
Class Descrpt: LC: GR105; Dewey: 299/.64 
Responsibility: Carolyn Morrow Long. 
Document Type: Book 
Entry: 20000608 
Update: 20011012 
Accession No: OCLC: 44425355   

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