Jewish Magic and Superstition: A Sudy in Folk Religion by Joshua Trachtenberg (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004) Paperback

Jewish Magic and Superstition: A Sudy in Folk Religion by Joshua Trachtenberg (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004) PaperbackTrachtenberg. Joshua. Jewish Magic and Superstition: A Study in Folk Religion. Foreword by Moshe Idel. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Paperback. 356 pages. Condition: Near Fine. Very minor shelf wear (see photos). Tight binding. A clean copy with no underlining, notes, highlighting or other markings.

and a resource for folklorists and historians alike

Illuminating the processes by which two sixteenth-century English scribes went about making a book of magic

- Invocation of the Water Spirits

Elf Queens and Holy Friars offers a detailed account of the church's attempts to suppress or redirect belief in such things as fairy lovers

Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold opens the door to landscapes little known outside of Scandinavia

and finally

Abraxas International Journal of Esoteric Studies #4

at Nag Hammadi

” It was the inheritance powders (usually made from powdered toads steeped in arsenic) that lent the Affair of the Poisons its name

and the rituals involved in the Faustian pact with the devil

A critical edition of the Latin text by Gösta Hedegård (2002)

Illustrated throughout by the author himself