An Encyclopaedia of Occultism by Lewis Spence

An Encyclopaedia of Occultism by Lewis Spence

This compendium of information on the occult sciences, occult personalities, psychic science, demonology, spiritism, and mysticism was one of a kind when it was first published in 1920 and is still considered the best in its field today. Spence organizes a world's worth of magic -- from Ab (a magical month in the ancient Semitic calendar) to Zulu witch-finders -- into 2,500 dictionary-style entries that explore concepts and personalities both familiar (Freemasonry, Morgan le Fay) and obscure: palingenesy (a process by which plants or vegetables are destroyed and then resurrected), Leonora Galigai (a 17th-century Italian aristocrat who was burned as a witch). A delight for devotees of the weird and the strange, and a valuable resource for students of mythology and the evolution of scientific thought, this important volume is at home in the libraries of all book lovers. Scottish journalist and folklorist LEWIS SPENCE (1874 -1955) was a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, and Vice-President of the Scottish Anthropological and Folklore Society. He published more than 40 works on mythology and the occult, including History of Atlantis, An Introduction to Mythology, and Myth and Ritual in Dance, Game and Rhyme.

Lewis Spence (1874-1955) was a Scottish historian best known for his five Atlantis novels and volumes on world mythology. His best-known work is The History of Atlantis (1926).

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ISBN 13	9781596052376
ISBN 10	1596052376
Title	An Encyclopaedia of Occultism
Author	Lewis Spence
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cosimo Classics
Year published	2006-09-01
Number of pages	456
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