Chapter I: Front Matter

The History of Civilization
_Edited by C. K. OGDEN, M.A._

The History of Witchcraft

The History of Civilization

_Edited by C. K. OGDEN, M.A._

HARRY ELMER BARNES, Ph.D., Consulting American Editor.

_The volumes already published are_:

*SOCIAL ORGANIZATION W. H. R. Rivers, F.R.S.
*A THOUSAND YEARS OF THE TARTARS Professor E. H. Parker
*THE THRESHOLD OF THE PACIFIC Dr. C. E. Fox
THE EARTH BEFORE HISTORY Edmond Perrier
PREHISTORIC MAN Jacques de Morgan
LANGUAGE Professor J. Vendryes
*HISTORY AND LITERATURE OF CHRISTIANITY Professor P. de Labriolle
*CHINA AND EUROPE Adolf Reichwein
*LONDON LIFE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY M. Dorothy George
A GEOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY Professor Lucien Febvre
*THE DAWN OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION V. Gordon Childe, B.Litt.
MESOPOTAMIA: BABYLONIAN AND ASSYRIAN CIVILIZATION Prof. L. Delaporte
*THE ÆGEAN CIVILIZATION Professor Gustave Glotz
*THE PEOPLES OF ASIA L. H. Dudley Buxton
*THE MIGRATION OF SYMBOLS Donald A. Mackenzie
*LIFE AND WORK IN MODERN EUROPE Professor Georges Renard
*TRAVEL AND TRAVELLERS OF THE MIDDLE AGES Edited by Prof. A. P. Newton
*CIVILIZATION OF THE SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS Rafael Karsten
RACE AND HISTORY Professor E. Pittard
FROM TRIBE TO EMPIRE Professor A. Moret
*A HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT Montague Summers
*ANCIENT GREECE AT WORK Professor G. Glotz
THE FORMATION OF THE GREEK PEOPLE Professor A. Jardé
*THE ARYANS V. Gordon Childe, D.Litt.
PRIMITIVE ITALY Professor Léon Homo
ROME THE LAW-GIVER Professor J. Declareuil
THE ROMAN SPIRIT Professor A. Grenier

_In preparation_:

*LIFE AND WORK IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE Professor Boissonade
*A HISTORY OF MEDICINE C. G. Cumston, M.D.
ANCIENT PERSIA AND IRANIAN CIVILIZATION Professor C. Huart
*ANCIENT ROME AT WORK Paul Louis
THE LIFE OF BUDDHA E. H. Thomas, D.Litt.

* _An asterisk indicates that the volume does not form part of the French collection “L’Évolution de l’Humanité.”_

_A complete classified list of the SERIES will be found at the end of this volume._

THE DEPARTURE FOR THE SABBAT. David Teniers

[_frontispiece_]

The History of Witchcraft and
Demonology

By
MONTAGUE SUMMERS

_Initiati sunt Beelphegor: et comederunt sacrificia mortuorum._
_Et immolauerunt filios suos, et filias suas dæmoniis_
_Et effuderunt sanguinem innocentem. Et fornicati sunt in
adinuentionibus suis._—PSALM CV.

NEW YORK
ALFRED A. KNOPF
1926

_To_

_PATRICK,_

_in memory of Loreto and Our Lady’s Holy House, as also
of Our Lady’s miraculous Picture at Campocavallo, Our
Lady of Pompeii, La Consolata of Turin, Consolatrix
Afflictorum in S. Caterina ai Funari at Rome, la Santissima
Vergine del Parto of S. Agostino, the Madonna della Strada
at the Gesù, La Nicopeja of San Marco at Venice,
Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Nouvelle of Rennes, Notre-Dame de
Grande Puissance of Lamballe, and all the Italian and
French Madonnas at whose shrines we have worshipped._

Printed in Great Britain at
_The Mayflower Press, Plymouth_. William Brendon & Son, Ltd.

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