Lives of the Necromancers

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Author

Godwin, William, 1756-1836

Credits

Produced by Wendy Crockett, Carlo Traverso, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team, from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr

Language

English

LoC Class

BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis

Subject

Witches -- Biography

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Text

eBook-No.

7082

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7082

Release Date

December 1, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.LIVES OF THE NECROMANCERS: — BY WILLIAM GODWIN. — LONDON — PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS — INTRODUCTION
4. 4.LIVES OF THE NECROMANCERS
5. 5.AMBITIOUS NATURE OF MAN — HIS DESIRE TO PENETRATE INTO FUTURITY. — DIVINATION. — AUGURY. — CHIROMANCY. — PHYSIOGNOMY. — INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS. — CASTING OF LOTS. — ASTROLOGY. — ORACLES. — DELPHI. — THE DESIRE TO COMMAND AND CONTROL FUTURE EVENTS. — COMMERCE WITH THE INVISIBLE WORLD. — SORCERY AND ENCHANTMENT. — WITCHCRAFT. — COMPACTS WITH THE DEVIL. — IMPS. — TALISMANS AND AMULETS. — NECROMANCY. — ALCHEMY. — FAIRIES. — ROSICRUCIANS. — SYLPHS AND GNOMES, SALAMANDERS AND UNDINES.
6. 6.EXAMPLES OF NECROMANCY AND WITCHCRAFT FROM THE BIBLE. — THE MAGI, OR WISE MEN OF THE EAST. — EGYPT. — STATUE OF MEMNON. — TEMPLE OF JUPITER AMMON: ITS ORACLES. — CHALDEA AND BABYLON. — ZOROASTER.
7. 7.GREECE. — DEITIES OF GREECE. — DEMIGODS. — DAEDALUS. — THE ARGONAUTS. — MEDEA. — CIRCE. — ORPHEUS. — AMPHION. — TIRESIAS. — ABARIS. — PYTHAGORAS. — EPIMENIDES. — EMPEDOCLES. — ARISTEAS. — HERMOTIMUS. — THE MOTHER OF DEMARATUS, KING OF SPARTA. — ORACLES. — INVASION OF XERXES INTO GREECE. — DEMOCRITUS. — SOCRATES.
8. 8.ROME. — VIRGIL. — POLYDORUS. — DIDO. — ROMULUS. — NUMA. — TULLUS HOSTILIUS. — ACCIUS NAVIUS. — SERVIUS TULLIUS. — THE SORCERESS OF VIRGIL. — CANIDIA. — ERICHTHO. — SERTORIUS. — CASTING OUT DEVILS. — SIMON MAGUS. — ELYMAS, THE SORCERER. — NERO. — VESPASIAN. — APOLLONIUS OF TYANA. — APULEIUS. — ALEXANDER THE PAPHLAGONIAN.
9. 9.REVOLUTION PRODUCED IN THE HISTORY OF NECROMANCY AND WITCHCRAFT UPON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CHRISTIANITY. — MAGICAL CONSULTATIONS RESPECTING THE LIFE OF THE EMPEROR.
10. 10.HISTORY OF NECROMANCY IN THE EAST. — GENERAL SILENCE OF THE EAST RESPECTING INDIVIDUAL NECROMANCERS. — ROCAIL. — HAKEM, OTHERWISE MOCANNA. — ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS. — PERSIAN TALES. — STORY OF A GOULE. — ARABIAN NIGHTS. — RESEMBLANCE OF THE TALES OF THE EAST AND OF EUROPE. — CAUSES OF HUMAN CREDULITY. — DARK AGES OF EUROPE — MERLIN. — ST. DUNSTAN.
11. 11.COMMUNICATION OF EUROPE AND THE SARACENS — GERBERT, POPE SILVESTER II. — BENEDICT THE NINTH. — GREGORY THE SEVENTH. — DUFF, KING OF SCOTLAND. — MACBETH. — VIRGIL. — ROBERT OF LINCOLN. — MICHAEL SCOT. — THE DEAN OF BADAJOZ. — MIRACLE OF THE TUB OF WATER. — INSTITUTION OF FRIARS. — ALBERTUS MAGNUS. — ROGER BACON. — THOMAS AQUINAS. — PETER OF APONO. — ENGLISH LAW OF HIGH TREASON. — ZIITO. — TRANSMUTATION OF METALS. — ARTEPHIUS. — RAYMOND LULLI. — ARNOLD OF VILLENEUVE. — ENGLISH LAWS RESPECTING TRANSMUTATION.
12. 12.REVIVAL OF LETTERS. — JOAN OF ARC. — ELEANOR COBHAM, DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER. — RICHARD III.
13. 13.SANGUINARY PROCEEDINGS AGAINST WITCHCRAFT. — SAVONAROLA. — TRITHEMIUS. — LUTHER. — CORNELIUS AGRIPPA. — FAUSTUS. — SABELLICUS. — PARACELSUS — CARDAN. — QUACKS, WHO IN COOL BLOOD UNDERTOOK TO OVERREACH MANKIND. — BENVENUTO CELLINI. — NOSTRADAMUS. — DOCTOR DEE. — EARL OF DERBY. — KING JAMES'S VOYAGE TO NORWAY. — JOHN FIAN. — KING JAMES'S DEMONOLOGY. — STATUTE, 1 JAMES I. — FORMAN AND OTHERS. — LATEST IDEAS OF JAMES ON THE SUBJECT. — LANCASHIRE WITCHES. — LADY DAVIES. — EDWARD FAIRFAX. — DOCTOR LAMB. — URBAIN GRANDIER. — ASTROLOGY. — WILLIAM LILLY. — MATTHEW HOPKINS. — CROMWEL. — DOROTHY MATELEY. — WITCHES HANGED BY SIR MATTHEW HALE. — WITCHCRAFT IN SWEDEN. — WITCHCRAFT IN NEW ENGLAND.
14. 14.CONCLUSION.
15. 15.FOOTNOTES

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