An introduction to European alchemy and a history of the practise of witchcraft and magic from the fourteenth century through to the seventeenth century.
William H. Davenport Adams presents the work of magicians and astrologers from fourteenth-century England through to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. First published in 1889, this volume gives historical accounts of witchcraft and records of witch trials.
Featuring the following chapters:
- - The English Magicians
- - Roger Bacon: The True and the Legendary
- - The Story of Dr. John Dee
- - The Last of the English Magicians: William Lilly
- - Witches and Witchcraft
- - Early History of Witchcraft in England
- - The Decline of Witchcraft in England
- - The Literature of Witchcraft