Bibliography for the Study of Magic Witchcraft and Religion

Burland, Cottie A. (1968). The Arts of the Alchemist. New York: Macmillan.

Burr, George Lincoln. (1914). Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases 1648 - 1706. New York: Barnes and Noble. (Statements about the presence of "providences," witches, and demons in the early American colonies.)

Crow, W. B. (1968). History of Magic, Witchcraft, and Occultism. Llewellyn.

Davies, B. Trevor. (1947). Four Centuries of Witch-Beliefs. London: Methuen.

Doyle, Arthur. (1975). The History of Spiritualism. New York: Arno Press.

Ferm, Vergilius, ed. (1950). Ancient Religions. New York: Philosophical Library.

Hawkins, Gerald S. (1973). Beyond Stonehenge. N. Y.: Harper and Row. (ancient astronomy and religion.)

James, E. O. (1957). Prehistoric Religion. New York: Barnes and Noble.

Levy, G. Rachel. (1963). Religious Conceptions of the Stone Age. New York: Harper Torchbooks.

Maringer, J. (1960). The Gods of Prehistoric Man. Trans. from the German by Mary Iiford. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson.

Parrinder, Geoffrey. (1963). Witchcraft, European and African, Revised ed. NY: Barnes & Noble.

Bharati, Agehananda. (1970). The Tantric Tradition. New York: Doubleday-Anchor. (India.)

Fuchs, Stephen. (1965). Rebellious Prophets: A Study of Messianic Movements in Indian Religions. NY: Asia Pub. House.

Guenther, Herbert V. (1963). Naropa. NY: Oxford U. P.

Weber, Max. (1951). The Religion of China. NY: The Free Press.

Weber, Max. (1958). The Religion of India. NY: The Free Press.

Cohn, Norman. (1957). The Pursuit of the Millennium. NY: Essential Books, Harper Torchbooks.

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Haining, Peter. (1974). The Witchcraft Papers: Contemporary Records of the Witchcraft Hysteria in Essex 1560-1700. Secaucus, N.J.: University Books. (European Witch Craze.)

Haller, William. (1938). The Rise of Puritanism. NY.

Harrison, Jane E. (1912). Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge U. P.

Heer, Friedrich. (1962). The Medieval World. London.

Hill, Christopher. (1964). Society and Puritanism in Pre-Revolutionary England. London.

Hobsbawm, E. J. (1959). Primitive Rebels. NY: The Free Press of Glencoe.

Hole, Christina. (1947). Witchcraft in England. N.Y.: Scribner's.

Howe, E. G. (1936). Mind of the Druids. New York: Weiser Press.

Hurtin, Serge. (1963). A History of Alchemy. New York: Walker.

Huxley, Aldous. (1952). The Devils of London. NY: Harper & Bros.

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Jungmann, Joseph A. (1961). The Mass of the Roman Rite: Its Origins and Development. New ed., revised and abridged; NY: Benziger Bros.

Kendrick, T. D. (1966). The Druids: A Study of Keltic Prehistory. N. Y.: Barnes and Noble.

Klaits, Joseph. (1985). Servants of Satan: The Age of the Witch Hunts. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (European witch craze.)

Kors, Alan and Edward Peters, Eds. (1972). Witchcraft in Europe 1100 - 1700. Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania Press.

Kramer, Samuel Noah. (1963). The Sumerians. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.

Lea, H. C. (1906). A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages. London.

Littell, Franklin Hamlin. (1958). The Anabaptist View of the Church. Boston. (Amish, etc.)

Mcfarland, A. D. (1970). Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England. NY: Harper & Row.

Midelfort, H. C. Erik. (1972). Witch hunting in Southwestern Germany 1562-1684: The social and intellectual foundations. Stanford: Stanford U. P.

Notestein, Wallace. (1965). A History of Witchcraft in England. NY: Russell & Russell.

Piggot, Stuart. (1968). The Druids. N. Y.: Praeger.

Ross, Anne. (1967). Pagan Celtic Britain: Studies in Iconography and Tradition. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Russell, J. B. (1972). Witchcraft in the Middle Ages. Cornell University Press.

Smith, W. C. (1957). Islam in Modern History. Princeton.

Smith, W. Robertson. (1956). The Religion of the Semites. NY: Meridian Books.

Spence, L. (1927). History and Origins of Druidism. New York: Weiser Press.

Squire, Charles. (1910). Celtic Myth and Legend, Poetry and Romance. London: Gresham Pub. Co.

Tawney, R. H. (1926). Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. NY: Harcourt, Brace & Co.

Trevor-Roper, H. R. (1969). European Witch Craze of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries and Other Essays. NY: Harper & Row.

Turberville, A. S. (1964). Medieval Heresy and the Inquisition. Archon Books.

Wearmouth, Robert F. (1937). Methodism and the Working-Class Movement of England, 1800-1850. London.

Weber, Max. (1952). Ancient Judaism. Glencoe, ILL: The Free Press.

Weber, Max. (1952). The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Talcott Parsons (trans.) NY: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Wilson, John A. (1949). Egypt: The Values of Life. In H. Frankfort, J. Wilson, and Thorkild Jacobsen Eds. Before Philosophy. Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books, Inc., pp. 103-133. (Egypt of the pharaohs.)

Wooley, Leonard. (1965). The Sumerians. New York: W. W. Norton.

Ashton, John. (1972). The Devil in Britain and America. Newcastle Publishing Co. (Witch trials.)

Boas, Ralph and Louise Boas. (1964). Cotton Mather: Keeper of the Puritan Conscience. Hamden, CT: Archon. (Colonial Massachusetts.)

Campell, T. N. (1958). Origins of the Mescal Bean Cult. American Anthropologist 60:159-160.

Caso, Alfonso. (1958). The Aztecs: The People of the Sun. Norman: The U. of Oklahoma P.

Demos, John P. (1982). Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England. New York: Oxford Univ. Press.

Disroche, Henri. (1971). The American Shakers. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press.

Fordham, Monroe. (1975). Major Themes in Northern Black Religious Thought, 1800 - 1860. New York: Exposition Press.

Frazier, E. Franklin. (1963). The Negro Church in America. New York: Basic Books.

Harner, Michael J. (1977). The Enigma of Aztec Sacrifice. Natural History 86:47ff (April 1977).

Hunt, Eva . (19??). The Transformation of the Hummingbird. Cultural Roots of a Zinacantecan Mythical Poem. Cornell U.P. (Best analysis of Precolumbian Mesoamerican beliefs.)

Kettredge, George Lyman. (1929). Witchcraft in Old and New England. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. P.

Krikenberg, W. and H. Trimborn, Eds. (1968). Pre-Columbian American Rites. Translated from the German. NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

Melcher, Marguerite Fellows. (1941). The Shaker Adventure. Princeton: Princeton U. Press.

Morley, Sylvanus G. (1956). The Ancient Maya. 3rd ed., revised by George W. Brainerd. Stanford, CA: Stanford U. P.

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Ricard, Robert. (1966). The Spiritual Conquest of Mexico. Berkeley: The U. of CA Press.

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Sasson, Diane. (1983). The Shaker Spiritual Narrative. Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press.

Sears, Clara Endicott. (1964). Gleanings from Old Shaker Journals. N. Y.: Houghton Mifflin Co.

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Von Hagen, Victor. (1944). The Aztec and Maya Papermakers. NY: J. Augustin.

Waldram, James B. (1997) The Way of the Pipe: Aboriginal Spirituality and Symbolic Healing in Canadian Prisons. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press.