BIBLIOGRAPHY
This Bibliography does not aim at anything beyond presenting a brief and convenient hand-list of some of the more important books upon Witchcraft. It does not even purport to give all those monographs to which reference is made in the body of this study. A large number of books I have thought it superfluous to include. Thus I have omitted general works of reference such as the Encyclopædia Britannica, Du Cange’s Glossarium ad scriptores mediæ et infimæ latinitatis, Dugdale’s Monasticon; daily companions such as the Missal, the Breviary, the Bible; Homer, Vergil, Horace, Ovid, Petronius, Lucan; Shakespeare, Marlowe, Ford, Dryden, Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy, and English classics; those histories which are on every library shelf, Gibbon, Lingard, Ranke; and such histories as the Cambridge Modern History.
On the other hand, I have of purpose included various books which may not seem at first sight to have much connexion with Witchcraft, although they are, as a matter of fact, by no means impertinent. In order to appreciate this vast subject in all its bearings, even the desultory or amateur investigator should at least be fairly grounded in theology, philosophy, and psychology. The student must be a capable theologian.
I have devoted some particular attention to the works of the demonologists, now almost universally neglected, but a close study of which is essential to the understanding of occultism and the appreciation of the grave dangers that may lurk there.
I am only too conscious of the plentiful lacunæ in this Bibliography. However, to attempt anything like a complete catalogue—if, indeed, it were possible to essay so illimitable a task—would involve the listing of very many thousands of books, and would itself require no inconsiderable a tale of volumes.
I need hardly point out that side by side with works of the highest importance it has been found necessary to include a few of no great value, which yet have their use to illustrate some one point or special phase.
GENERAL
Caillet, Albert L. Manuel bibliographique des sciences psychiques ou occultes, science des Mages, hermétique, astrologie, Kabbale, Francmaçonnerie, médecine ancienne, mesmérisme, sorcellerie, singularités, etc. 3 vols. Paris, 1913.
Græsse, Johan Georg Theodor. Bibliotheca magica et pneumatica. Leipzig, 1843. (In spite of obvious defects a very valuable bibliography.)
Yve-Plessis, R. Bibliographie française de la sorcellerie. Paris, 1900. (An immense and exhaustive work on French books.)
Aaron the Greek [Simon Blocquel]. La Magie rouge. Paris, 1821.
Abner, Theodore. Les apparitions du Diable. Brussels, 1879.
Acontius. Stratagemata Satanæ. Libri VIII. Basle, 1565.
Acta Sanctorum. Par les Bollandistes. Antwerp, Tongerloo, Brussels, 1644 sqq. Reprinted, Paris, 1863 sqq.
Adhémar de Chabannes. Chronicle: in Monumenta Germaniæ historica. Ed. G. A. Pertz, etc. Vol. IV.
Agobard, S. Opera omnia. Migne, Patrologia latina. Vol. CIV.
Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius. La philosophie occulte de Henr. Corn. Agrippa ... traduite du latin [par A. Levasseur]. 2 vols. Hague, 1727.
Œuvres magiques ... mises en français par Pierre d’Aban. Rome, 1744. (Of the last rarity. There are other editions, Liège, 1788; Rome, 1800; Rome, 1744 (circa 1830); but all these are extremely scarce.)
Alanus (Alain de Lille). Aduersus hæreticos et Waldenses. Ed. J. Masson. Paris, 1612.
Alanus, Henricus. Ciceronis de Divinatione et de Fato. 1839.
Albert, Le Petit. Alberti Parui Lucii libellus de mirabilibus Naturæ arcanis. (This treatise which tells how to confect philtres, make talismans, use the hand of glory, discover treasures, etc., has been very frequently translated into French, generally under the running title Les secrets merveilleux de la magie naturelle et cabalistique....)
Bl. Albertus Magnus, O.P. Opera omnia. Ed. Father Peter Jammy, O.P. 21 vols. Lyons, 1651, etc.
De alchimia. (This treatise is said to be doubtful.)
De secretis mulierum. (This work is certainly not from the pen of the great Dominican doctor, to whom, however, it was universally ascribed. There are a vast number of editions, and translations, especially into French. Les secretz des femmes et homes ... stampato in Torino par Pietro Ranot, N.D. circa 1540. Les secrets admirables du grand Albert. Paris, 1895.)
Commentaria. Lib. IV, dist. 34. An maleficii impedimento aliquis potest impediri a potentia cocundi. (Nœud de l’aiguillette.)
Alexander III, Pope. Epistolæ apud Regesta R. R. Pontificum. Nos. 10, 584-14, 424. Ed. Jaffé. And Löwenfeld’s Epistolæ Pontif. Rom. ineditæ. Leipzig, 1885.
Alexis. Secreti del reverendo Donno Alessio Piemontese. Venice, 1555. (Attributed by Girolamo Muzio to the alchemist Girolamo Ruscelli.)
Allard, Paul. Histoire des persécutions. 5 vols. Paris, 1892.
Julien l’Apostat. 3 vols. Paris, 1900.
Alphonsus Liguori, S. Theologia Moralis. 9 vols. Malines, 1828. Also ed. P. Gaudé, C. SS. R. Rome, 1905.
Alvaro, Pelayo. De Planctu Ecclesiæ. Venice, 1560.
Ambroise da Vignate (c. 1408). Tractatus de Hæreticis. Rome, 1581.
Ambrose, S. Opera omnia. Ed. Paolo Angelo Ballerini. 6 vols. Folio. Milan, 1875.
Anania, Giovanni Lorenzo. De Natura Dæmonum. Apud Vol. II. Malleus Maleficarum. 1669.
Anonymi Gesta Francorum et Aliorum Hierosolymitanorum. Oxford.
Antonelli, G. Prof. Lo spiritismo. Fede e Scienza, II. 11, 12. Rome.
Antoninus, O. P. S. Confessionale. Florence, 1496.
Antonio A Spiritu Sancto, O.D.C. Directorium Mysticum. Paris, 1904.
Aremi (Le Sage). Secrets de vieux Druide. Lille, 1840.
Aretini, Angelo. Tractatus de maleficiis. 1521.
Aries, Martin. De superstitionibus maleficorum. Rome, 1559.
Ariminensis, Augustinus. Additiones in Angeli Aretini Tractatum de maleficiis. Milan, 1514.
Arnauld de Villeneuve. De Maleficiis. Lyons, 1509.
Arnould, Arthur. Histoire de l’Inquisition. Paris, 1869.
Aroux. Mystères de la Chevalerie et de l’amour platonique. 1857-8.
Arpe (Petr. Frid.). De Prodigiosis Naturæ et Artis Operibus Talismanes et Amuleta. Hamburg, 1717.
Athanasius, S. Opera omnia. Migne, Pat. Græci. Vols. XXIII-XXVIII.
Atwood, M. A. A Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery.
Augustine, S. Opera omnia. Migne, Pat. Lat. Vols. XXXIX-XLVII.
De Ciuitate Dei. Ed. J. E. C. Welldon, D.D., Dean of Durham. 2 vols. 1924. (The introduction and appendices must be used with caution.)
Confessiones. Ed. P. Knöll. Corpus Scriptorum Eccl. Latinorum (Vienna.) XXXIII.
d’Autun, Jacques. L’Incredulité savante. Lyons, 1674.
d’Avallon, André, et Condis. Dictionnaire de droit canonique.
Azpilceuta, Martin. Opera omnia. 3 vols. Lyons, 1589.
Baco, R. De secretis operibus magiæ. Paris, 1542.
Bacon, Roger. Epistola de secretis operibus. Hamburg, 1608; 1618. (The same work as De mirabili potestate artis et naturæ et de nullitate magiæ. Paris, 1542; Oxford, 1604; London, 1859.)
Baissac, Jules. Les grands jours de la sorcellerie. Paris, 1890.
Ballerini, Antonio, S.J. Opus theologicum morale. 7 vols. Prati, 1892.
Bang. Norske Hexeformularer. Christiania, 1902.
Baronius, Cesare Ven. Annales ecclesiastici. 38 vols. Lucca, 1738-59.
Barrett. Magus or Celestial Intelligencer; Being a complete system of Occult Philosophy, etc. 1801.
Basil, S. Opera omnia. Paris, 1839.
Basin, Bernardus. De artibus magicis. 1482; and Paris, 1506.
Becanus, Martin, S.J. Opuscula Theologica sive Controversiæ Fidei inter Catholicos et Hæreticos hujus temporis. Duaci, 1634.
Beer, M. Social Struggles in the Middle Ages. London, 1924.
Bekker, Balthasar. De Betoverde Wereld. 4 vols. Amsterdam, 1691-93.
Benedict XIII. Vita del Sommo Pontefice Benedetto XIII. Venezia, 1737.
Benedict XIV, Pope. De Beatificatione et Canonizatione. 9 vols. Rome, 1787.
Benoist, J., O.P. Histoire des Albigeoises et des Vaudois. Paris, 1691.
Bernard, S. Opera omnia. Migne, Pat. Lat. CLXXXII-CLXXXV.
Bernard of Como, O.P. Lucerna inquisitorum hæreticæ prauitatis ... et eiusdem Tractatus de Strigibus.... Milan, 1566; Rome, 1584.
Bernard of Luxemburg, O.P. Catalogus hæreticorum omnium. Erfurt, 1522.
Bertagna, J. B. De casuum reseruatione in Sacramento Pœnitentiæ. Turin, 1868.
Berthier, O.P. L’Étude de la Somme Théologique de S. Thomas d’Aquin. Paris, 1905. (Appendix III. Spiritisme et hypnotisme d’après S. Thomas.)
Besterman, Theodore. Crystal-Gazing.
Biel, Gabriel. Supplementum in 28 distinctiones ultimas 4ti magistri sententiarum. (1486.) Basle, 1520.
Binsfeld, Peter. De Confessionibus Maleficorum. Treves, 1589.
Bodin, Jean. De la démonomanie des sorciers. Paris, 1580.
Le fleav des demons et sorciers. Nyort, 1616.
Boguet, Henry. Discours des Sorciers. 3rd ed. Lyons, 1590.
Boissardus, Jan. Jac. De Diuinatione et Magicis Prasetigiis. Oppenheimii, 1615.
Bonaventura, S. Opera omnia. 10 vols. Quaracchi, 1882-1902.
Brand, J. Observations on Popular Antiquities. 2 vols. 1813.
Brett, G. S. A History of Psychology. Vol. I, Ancient and Patristic; Vol. II, Mediæval and Early Modern; Vol. III, Modern Psychology.
Brognoli, O.F.M. Alexicacon, hoc est de maleficiis. Venice, 1714.
Brunus, Conradus. De hæreticis et schismaticis. Rome, 1584.
Budge, Sir E. A. Wallis. Tutankhamen: Amenism, Atenism, and Egyptian Monotheism, with Hieroglyphic Texts of Hymns to Amen and Aten.
Egyptian Magic. Third Impression. London, N.D. [1923].
Bullarium Papæ Benedicti XIV. Rome, 1746.
Burchard, Wormaciensis. Decretum. Migne, Pat. Lat. Vol. CLX.
Burkitt, F. G. The Religion of the Manichees. Cambridge, 1925.
Butler, Alban. Lives of the Saints. 1756-9; 2 vols. Dublin, 1833.
Bzovius, A. Historiæ Ecclesiasticæ. Apud Zilettum, q.u.
Cæsalpinus, Andreas. Dæmonum inuestigatio. Florence, 1580.
Caietanus, Thomas. De Maleficiis. 1500.
Calmet, Augustin Dom, O.S.B. Traité sur les Apparitions des Esprits, et sur les Vampires. 2 vols. Paris, 1751.
Cappello, S.J., Felix M. De Censuris. Rome, 1919.
Carena. Tractatus de officio Sanctæ Inquisitionis. Lyons, 1669.
Cassinis, Samuel de. Question de la strie. 1505.
Cauz, C. F. de. De Cultibus Magicis. 1771.
Charley, T. News from the Invisible World. Wakefield, n.s. (circa 1850).
Chrysostom, S. John. Opera omnia Græce. Edidit H. Savile. 8 vols. Etonæ, 1612.
Churchward, Albert. The Arcana of Freemasonry.
Cirvelius, Petrus. De magica superstitione. 1521.
Clementis Alexandrini Opera. 2 vols. Venice, 1757.
Collectanea Chemica. (Select Treatises on Alchemy and Hermetic Medicine.) 1893.
Collin de Plancy, J. A. S. Dictionnaire Infernal. Editio princeps. 2 vols. Paris, 1818. (I have used the sixth, and last, edition, one vol. Paris, H. Plon. 4to, 1863. The six editions differ widely from one another. This famous work is valuable, but often uncritical and even erroneous.)
Collius, Francis. De Animabus Paganorum. Milan, 1622.
Conconier. L’âme humaine. Paris, 1890.
L’hypnotisme franc. Paris, 1898.
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Councell, R. W. Apologia Alchymiæ.
Crespet, Père Celestine. La haine de Sathan contre l’homme. Paris, 1590.
Crowe, Catherine. The Night Side of Nature. 2 vols. 1848. (A standard work; very frequently reprinted.)
Cuthbert, O.S.F.C., Father. God and the Supernatural. London, 1920.
Daneau, Lambert. Les Sorciers. 1574. There is an English tr. A Dialogue of Witches, 1575. [London?]
Daynes, Gilvbert W. The Untrodden Paths of Masonic Research.
De Lancre, Pierre. Tableau de l’inconstance des mavvais anges et démons. Paris, 1612.
L’incredvlité et mescréance dv sortilège. Paris, 1622.
Du Sortilège. 1627. (This is the rarest of De Lancre’s books, and very little known.)
Delassus, Jules. Les Incubes et les Succubes. Paris, 1897.
Delehaye, H., S.J. Légendes Hagiographiques. Brussels, 1906. Trans. by Mrs. V. M. Crawford as The Legends of the Saints. (The Westminster Library.)
Delrio, Martin Anton, S.J. Disquisitionum Magicarum Libri Sex. Louvain, 1599.
Devil, History of the, Ancient and Modern, with a Description of the Devil’s Dwellings. Durham, 1822.
Diana, R. P. D. Antoninus. Resolutiones morales. Lyons, 1633.
Didron, M. Iconographie chrétienne. Histoire de Dieu. Paris, 1843. Eng. tr. 2 vols, by E. J. Millington. London, 1851. Bohn’s Library.
Dobbins, F. S. False Gods, or the Idol Worship of the World. Boston, circa 1870.
Dorat, S.J., Joseph. Psychologia. Vol. VI of Summa Philosophiæ Christianæ. 8 vols. Rome.
Drago, Luigi Vincenzo. Il materialismo e il dogma. Fede e Scienza. IV, 40 Rome.
Dulaure, J. A. Des Cultes qui ont précédé et amené l’idolâtrie. 1805.
Des Divinités Génératrices. Paris, 1805.
Du Prel, Carl. Tr. C. C. Massey. The Philosophy of Mysticism. 2 vols. London, 1889.
Elich, Philip Ludwig. Dæmonomagia, siue de dæmonis cacurgia. Frankfort, 1607.
Ennemoser, Joseph. The History of Magic. 2 vols. London, 1854.
Erastus, Thomas. De lamiis seu strigibus. Basle, 1577.
Errores Gazariorum seu illorum qui scobam uel baculum equitare probantur. 1450.
Evenius, Sigismund. Dissertatio physica de magia. 1512.
Ewick, John. De sagorum quos uulgo ueneficos appellant natura. Bremen, 1584.
Eymeric, O.P., Nicholas. Directorium Inquisitorum. Rome, 1585; Venice, 1607.
Ferreres, S.J., I. B. Theologia Moralis. 11th ed. Rome, 1921.
Franzelin, S.J., Cardinal I.B. De Deo Uno. Rome.
Frazer, Sir James. Folk-Lore in the Old Testament. London, 1923.
Fredericq, Dr. Paul. Corpus documentorum Inquisitionis hæreticæ prauitatis neerlandicæ. 5 vols. Ghent, 1889 sqq.
Geschiednes der Inquisitie de Neerlanden tot aen hare herinrichting onder Keizer Karel V (1025-1520). Ghent, 1892 sqq.
Freud, Sigismund. Totem and Taboo. Resemblances between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics. London, 1919.
Gaffarellus, Jac. Curiositates Inauditæ. Hamburg, 1706.
Gams, Pius Bonifacius, O.S.B. Die Kirchengeschichte von Spanien. 5 vols. Regensburg, 1862.
Garrigon-Legrange, O.P., Reginald. De Reuelatione. 2nd ed. 1921.
Gaya, Louis de. Cérémonies nuptiales de toutes les nations. Paris, 1680.
Gebhart, Emile. L’Italie mystique. Paris, 1893.
Geiler, Johann. Die Emeis. Dies ist das Buch von der Omeissen. 1516.
Gemelli, O.F.M., Agostino. Psicologia e Biologia. Rome, 1920.
Non Moechaberis. Milan, 1923.
Gerbert. Epistolæ. Migne. Pat. Lat. Vol. CXXXIX.
Geruasius of Tilbury. Otia imperialia. Written circa 1214.
Giessler, J. C. L. Ecclesiastical History. Eng. tr. 1853.
Gilly, William Stephen. Narrative of Researches among the Vaudois. London, 1824.
Giustinianus, Bernardus. Historia Generale della Monarchia Spagnuola Antica, e Moderna. Venezia, 1674.
Godelmann, Johan Georg. Disputatio de Magis. Frankfort, 1584. Tractatus de Magis. 1591.
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Gougenot des Mousseaux, Henri Roger.
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Mœurs et pratiques des Démons. Paris, 1854.
La magie au dix-neuvième siècle. Paris, 1860.
Les médiateurs et les moyens de la magie. Paris, 1863.
Les hauts phénomènes de la magie. Paris, 1864.
(Vampires; the Incubus and the Succubus.)
Goujet, Abbé. Histoire des inquisitions. 2 vols. Cologne, 1759.
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Gregory the Great, Pope S. Opera omnia. Ed. J. B. Gallicoli. 17 vols. Venice, 1765-76. Reprinted by Migne. Pat. Lat. LXXV-LXXIX.
Gregory of Nazianzus, S. Opera omnia. Paris, 1609-11. Migne. Pat. Gr. 4 vols. XXXV-XXXVIII.
Gregory of Tours, S. Scriptores Rerum Merouinginarum apud monumenta Germaniæ historica. I, Pt. I, pp. 1-30. 1884-5.
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Guaita, Stanislas de. Essais de sciences maudites. Paris and Brussels, 1886.
Guazzo, Francesco Maria, Ambrosian. Compendium Maleficarum. Milan, 1608. (One of the most valuable of the earlier writers.)
Gui, Bernard. Practica Inquisitionis hæreticæ prauitatis. Ed. Mgr. C. Douais. Paris, 1886.
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Heiner, Frederich. De Processu Criminali Ecclesiastico. Rome, 1920.
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Herrmann. Institutiones Theologiæ Dogmaticæ. 2 vols. Rome, 1914.
Hetzenauer, O.M.C., Michael. Commentarius in librum Genesis. Rome, 1910.
Hildebert, S. Opera omnia. Paris, 1708.
Hincmar. Opera omnia. Migne, Pat. Lat. Vols. CXXV, CXXVI.
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Holmes, Edmond. The Albigensian or Catharist Heresy. London, 1925.
(A truly amazing defence of the Albigensians. The author has completely misunderstood their heresies.)
Howey, M. Oldfield. The Horse in Magic and Myth. London, 1923.
Hueber. Menologium S. Francisci. Munich, 1608.
Hugon, R. P. De Deo Uno et Trino. 2 vols. Rome.
Inquisition. Orden que Comunmente se Guarda en el Santo Oficio de la Inquisition. Valencia, 1736. (Contains all the forms and procedure of the Holy Office.)
Ives, George. A History of Penal Methods. 1914. Chapter II: “The Witch Trials.” (The whole volume is valuable.)
Jacolliot, Louis. Occult Science in India and among the Ancients.
Jacquerius, Nicolas. Flagellum Dæmonum Fascinariorum. 1458.
Jaderosa, Federico. Theologia Moralis. Rome, 1922.
Jauer, Nicolaus von. Tractatus de superstitionibus. 1405.
Jennings, Hargrave. The Rosicrucians: their Rites and Mysteries.
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Kelly, Edward. The Alchemical Writings of Edward Kelly. Trans. from the Hamburg Edition of 1676. 1893.
Khunrath, H. Amphitheatrum Sapientiæ Æternæ Solius Veræ, Christiano-Kabalisticum, Diuino-Magicum, nec non Physico-Chymicum, Tertriunum, Catholicon. Hanover, 1609.
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Krone. Fra Dolcino und die Patarerer. Leipzig, 1844.
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Lavater, Loys. De spectris, lemuribus, etc. Geneva, 1570.
Lea, Henry Charles. History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages. New York, 1887; London, 1888; and 3 vols., 1906.
Superstition and Force. Philadelphia, 1866. 3rd ed., 1878; 4th ed., 1892.
Studies in Church History. Philadelphia, 1869.
History of the Inquisition in Spain. 4 vols. London, 1906-7.
The Inquisition in the Spanish Dependencies. New York, 1908.
(The works of Henry Charles Lea, lengthy and laborious as they are, must be used with the utmost caution and need continually to be corrected. They are insecure, and bitterly biased, since even when facts are not widely distorted a wrong interpretation is inevitably placed upon them. Their value and merit can but be regarded as fundamentally shaken. The following criticism will be found useful: Paul Maria Baumgarten: Die Werke von Henry Charles Lea und verwandte Bücher, 1908. Eng. tr.: H. C. Lea’s Historical Writings: A critical inquiry into their method and merit. 1909.)
Lee, Frederick George, D.D. The Other World. 2 vols. London, 1875.
More Glimpses of the World Unseen. 1878.
Glimpses in the Twilight. 1885.
Sights and Shadows. 1894.
(Scholarly and valuable works.)
Lehmann. Aberglaube. 2nd ed. 1908.
Lehmkuhl, S.J., Aug. Casus conscientiæ. 2 vols. Rome, 1913.
Le Loyer, Pierre. Discours et histoires des spectres. Paris, 1605.
Lévi, Eliphas (Alphonse Louis Constant). The History of Magic. Trans. by Arthur Edward Waite. 1922.
The Paradoxes of the Highest Science. (Footnotes by a Master of the Wisdom.)
Transcendental Magic. (Translated, annotated, and introduced by Arthur Edward Waite.)
Leyser, August. De crimine magiæ. Wittenberg, 1737.
Licosthenes, Conrad. De prodigiis et ostentis. 1557.
Locati, Umberto. Opus iudiciale inquisitorum. Rome, 1572.
Lombard, Peter. Quatuor Libri Sententiarium. Printed 1472. Paris, 1892. (Best edition is that found in the Commentary of S. Bonaventura. Opera S. Bonauenturæ. Quaracchi, 1885, I-IV.)
Lomeier, J. Epimenides sive De Ueterum Gentilium Lustrationibus Syntagma. Zutphen, 1700.
Lottini, O.P., Giovanni. Compendium Philosophiæ Scholasticæ. 3 vols. Rome, 1912.
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Lull, Bl. Ramón. Opera omnia. 10 vols. Mainz, 1721-42.
Mackay, Charles. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions. 2 vols. London, 1852. (Must be used with caution, very frequently reprinted.)
Madden, R. R. Phantasmata. 2 vols. 1857.
Maier, M. Themis Aurea (on the Rosicrucians). Frankfurt, 1618.
Mamor, Pietro. Flagellum maleficorum. Circa 1462.
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Martindale, C. C., S.J. Antichrist. C.T.S. (Do. 83).
Theosophy.
Mauritius, E. De denunciatione sagarum. Tubingen, 1664.
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Mazzara. Leggendario francescano. Venice, 1721.
Mazzella, Hor. Prælectiones Scholastico-Dogmaticæ. 4 vols. Rome.
Mazzolini (Mozolini, Prierias), O.P., Sylvester. De strigimagorum libri III. Rome, 1521.
Mechlinia, Johannes de. Utrum perfecta dei opera possint impediri dæmonis malicia. Circa 1450.
Memmingius, Nicolas. Admonitio de superstitionibus magicis uitandis. s.l. 1575.
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Menologium Cisterciense.
Mercer, Rev. J. E. Alchemy: its Science and Romance.
Meric, Mgr. L’Autre vie. 13 ed. Paris, 1919.
L’Imagination et les Prodigues. Paris, 1918.
Revue de Monde Invisible. Edited by Mgr. Meric. 1909—in continuation.
Michelet, Jules. La sorcière. Paris, 1862. (This original edition is of the last rarity. Reprinted 1862.)
Mirandola, G. P. P. della. Strix siue de ludificatione dæmonum. 1523.
Molitor, Ulrich. De lamiis et phitonicis mulieribus, teutonice unholden uel hexen. 1489.
Moreau, Paul. Des Aberrations du Sens Génésique. 4th ed. 1887.
Mosheim, J. J. von. Institutes of Ecclesiasticæ History. Eng. tr. 2nd ed. 1850.
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Sumptibus Claudii Bovrgeat. 4 vols. 1669, which contains the following valuable collections:—
Vol. I.
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Sprenger and Kramer. Malleus Maleficarum.
Vol. II.
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Simancas, Iago. De Lamiis.
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In Ponzinibium de Lamiis Apolegia.
Vol. III
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Fustis Dæmonum.
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Vol. IV.
Ars exorcistica tribus partibus.
(It is hardly possible to overestimate the value of this collection.)
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(This work should be used with reserve.)
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