The History of Magic

LONDIN: WI:son and (0!lvy,

Skinner Street.

THE

HISTORY OF MAGIC.

BY

JOSEPH ENNEMOSER.

TRANSLATED FROM THE

GER

BY WILLIAM HOWITT.

TO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX OF THE MOST REMARKABLE AND

BEST AUTHENTICATED STORIES OF

APPARITIONS, DREAMS, SECOND SIGHT, SOMNAMBULISM, PREDICTIONS, DIVINATION, WITCHCRAFT, VAMPIRES, FAIRIES,

TABLE-TURNING AND 'SPIRIT-RAPPING.

SELECTED BY

MARY HOWITT.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

Vol. II.

LONDON: HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

CONTENTS

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VOL. II.

ON MAGIC IN MYTHOLOGY.

Natural Science the Origin of Mythology

Greek and German Mythology

Symbolism

Vast Antiquity of the Myth

On Magic in Mythology

The Wisdom of the Remotest Antiquity

On Magic in Mythology-(continued)

Mythical Signs and their Magical Relations

The Key to Mythical Wisdom

The Dioscuri

The Myth of Hercules

Magnetic and Meteoric Stones

Mystic Symbols in Nature

XVestal Fires.
Samothracian Wings ; Iron Kings, etc;.

Ancient Use of of the Magnet

XWonderful Clairvoyant Vision of Mysteriez

Symbolic Meaning of Mythologic Fadle

X The Great Significance of Hermes

Symbolic Mythological Charactors

The Significance of the Mythic Pacchus

-The Wonder-working Dactyls

The Myth of Hercules Explained

Magical Effects of Stones

The Symbolic Homs and Wings Explained

THE MAGIC OF THE GERMANS.

Magic among the Germans

Magic among the Early Christians

Magic of the Ancient Germans

and of the Northern Nations

Salic Law against Witchcraft

Amulets and Charms of the Middle Ages

Magic of Scandinavia

The Magic of the Laplanders

Pigmies, etc.

Magic of the Middle Ages

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Good and Evil Spirits

The Early Christian Belief in Demons .

Struggle of Christianity and Heathenism

Witch Metamorphoses

The Devil of the Fifteenth Century

Witch Persecution of the Fifteenth Century

The Sorcery-bull of Pope Innocent VIII.

True Knowledge the Opponent of Witchcraft

Witch Trials

The Cooking-witches

Witch Mountains of Europe

Magic Herbs, Trees, &c.

Superstitions

The Healing Art

Sympathetic Superstitions

Sympathetis Cures

Pins and Needles

Laughing-fits

White Magic and Truth

Mystic DOCTRINES, AND ENDEAVOURS AFTER A PAILOSOPHICAL

ELUCIDATION OF THE MAGIC OF THE MIDDLE AGES.

Theophrastus Paracelsus

Paracelsus on the Magnet

Baptista Van Hekinont :

Herry Corndlus-Agrippa

Robert Fludd

M. Maxwell :

Valentine Greatrakes.

Richter v£ Stayer, etc:

Athanasius Kireliér

Tenzel Wirdiğ

Gassner

Gassner and his Patients

Count Gagliostro

Emanuel Swedenborg.

On Divine Providence, etc.

On the Planets

Jacob Böhme

On the New Man

On God and His Manifestation, etc. .

On the Sun, etc.

On the Constellations

On the Four Element

On the Nature of Man after the Fall

On God in the Soul.

On the Infection of the Soul

Books

The History of Magic, Volume 2