Month: February 2019
A World In A Grain Of Sand: The Clairvoyance Of Stefan Ossowiecki – Ian Stevenson and Zofia Weaver Mary Rose Barrington
Many people around the world accept the possibility of telepathy or clairvoyance. Very rarely, however, has anyone been able to demonstrate these psychic faculties with…
Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania – Gábor Klaniczay, Éva Pócs
This book provides a selection of studies on witchcraft and demonology by those involved in an interdisciplinary research group begun in Hungary thirty years ago.…
Communicating with the Spirits (Demons, Spirits and Witches, Vol. 1) – Gabor Klaniczay (Ed.), Eva Pocs (Ed.)
Focuses on the problem of communication with the other world: the phenomenon of spirit possession and its changing historical interpretations, the imaginary schemes elaborated for…
Christian Demonology and Popular Mythology
Christian Demonology and Popular Mythology (Demons, Spirits, Witches, Vol. 2) – Gabor Klaniczay (Ed.), Eva Pocs (Ed. )The authors-recognized historians, ethnologists, folklorists coming from four…
The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland – Emma Wilby
The witchcraft confessions given by Isobel Gowdie (in Auldearn, Scotland in 1662)are widely celebrated as the most extraordinary on record in Britain. Their descriptive power,…
A Celebration of Demons : Exorcism and the Aesthetics of Healing in Sri Lanka – Bruce Kapferer
The Sinhalese exorcism rituals are perhaps the most complex and the most magnificent in performance still extant. For this second edition, the author has written…
Urban Voodoo: A Beginners Guide to Afro-Caribbean Magic – S. Jason Black, Christopher S. Hyatt
This book fills a long-standing need in literature: Voodoo, Santeria, and Macumba as practiced today in cities throughout the Western world. It is not another…
Parapsychology: The Science of Unusual Experience – Ron Roberts, David Groome
This intriguing new book presents an exploration of the unconventional side of psychology: parapsychology. Assuming no prior knowledge of psychology, Roberts explores a wide array…