Descrizione

The superstitions or witchcraft' is designed to exhibit a consecutive review of the charac teristic forms and facts of a creed which (if at present apparently dead, or at least harmless, in Christendom) in the seventeenth century was a living and lively faith, and caused thou sands of victims to be sent to the torture chamber, to the stake, and to the scaffold. At this day, the remembrance of its superhuman art, in its different manifestations, is immortal ised in the every-day language of the peoples of Europe.