Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in Greek and Roman Worlds – Daniel Ogden
In a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary and mythic tradition…
Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World – Jeffrey Burton Russell
Mephistopheles is the fourth and final volume of a critically acclaimed history of the concept of the Devil. The series constitutes the most complete historical…
A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels and Other Subversive Spirits – Carol K. Mack, Dinah Mack
Watch your back! . . . How to spot and identify demons and other subversive spirits . . . And what to do next.Demons, fairies,…
England’s First Demonologist: Reginald Scot and ‘The Discoverie of Witchcraft’ – Philip C. Almond
“The fables of witchcraft have taken so fast hold and deepe root in the heart of man, that few or none can endure with patience…
Lemegeton
This is the first quality trade paperback of one of the most famous (or infamous) magical texts of the Seventeenth Century. A complete compendium of…
Greek Magic: Ancient, Medieval and Modern – John Petropoulos
Magic has always been a widespread phenomenon in Greek Society, starting from Homer’s Circe (the first ‘evil witch’ in western history) and extending to the…
Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion – Christopher A. Faraone, Dirk Obbink
This well-researched and inspiring collection of ten essays by leading American and European scholars challenges the tendency among scholars of Greek religion to ignore what…
The Gnostics: The First Christian Heretics – Sean Martin
Gnosticism is the name given to various religious schools that proliferated in the first centuries after Christ, nearly becoming the dominant form of Christianity, but…
The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom form the Ancient and Medieval Worlds – Willis Barnstone, Marvin Meyer
Gnosticism was a wide-ranging religious movement of the first millennium CE with earlier antecedents and later flourishings “whose adherents sought salvation through knowledge and personal…