An excellent reference source on witchcraft, and the delusions/persecutions of Western Europe, largely focused on the 15-18th centuries. It is an encyclopedia and reads like one (numerous topical entries), so don't expect it to read like a normal book. I suppose some people could quibble that the author takes a very specific definition of witchcraft, one that excludes what people would recognize today as Wicca or what Alistair Crowley was about.

Robbins works dutifully from primarty sources - boasting somewhat about his visits to the world's great libraries in the the introduction - so this is no slap-dash quick cash grab trend exploitation. Neither does it provide a trendy 60s New Age gloss on the subject. It focuses on witch hunts and Christian-based. Download free Islamic books of book the encyclopedia of witchcraft demonology by rossell hope robbins hc pdf.

Likewise, the book is quite clear in establishing An excellent reference source on witchcraft, and the delusions/persecutions of Western Europe, largely focused on the 15-18th centuries. It is an encyclopedia and reads like one (numerous topical entries), so don't expect it to read like a normal book. I suppose some people could quibble that the author takes a very specific definition of witchcraft, one that excludes what people would recognize today as Wicca or what Alistair Crowley was about. Likewise, the book is quite clear in establishing that witchcraft is total bunk, so readers thinking they'll get some sort of 'primer' will be very disappointed.

All told, the book is an excellent reference on the paranoia and panic that surrounded witchcraft, the extent to which people were systematically tortured and abused, and those brave few who tried to fight the nonsense with logic and reason. I remember wanting to read this book for years. When I happened across this in an old book shop, I knew it was fate. The first thing that grabbed me was the cover. Download Need For Speed Prostreet Pc Iso.

I know we are not to judge a book by its cover, but what can I sat it was Gothic and pulled me in. I love how it carries elements of folklore, social beliefs, and fears of the day. I have researched the paranormal as a writer myself for a long time. Still, I found cases that I scarcely knew existed. Anyone who loves startling cases o I remember wanting to read this book for years.

When I happened across this in an old book shop, I knew it was fate. The first thing that grabbed me was the cover. I know we are not to judge a book by its cover, but what can I sat it was Gothic and pulled me in. I love how it carries elements of folklore, social beliefs, and fears of the day.

I have researched the paranormal as a writer myself for a long time. Still, I found cases that I scarcely knew existed. Anyone who loves startling cases of real life magic, demons, and macabre history this book is for you!

A treasure trove of useful information on the witchcraft persecutions that gripped Europe, England and Colonial America especially useful as a launching pad for further reading. The bibliographies are nearly worth the price of admission; with that said I did notice some errors namely in dates and locations e.g. 1682 was listed as the year for the Essex County witchcraft trials, The Mercy Brown vampire scare was located in Rhode Island not Massachusetts, Robbins's analysis of the lithobolia outbr A treasure trove of useful information on the witchcraft persecutions that gripped Europe, England and Colonial America especially useful as a launching pad for further reading. The bibliographies are nearly worth the price of admission; with that said I did notice some errors namely in dates and locations e.g. 1682 was listed as the year for the Essex County witchcraft trials, The Mercy Brown vampire scare was located in Rhode Island not Massachusetts, Robbins's analysis of the lithobolia outbreak on Great Island, NH in 1682 is questionable. Rossell Hope Robbins was born on July 22, 1912, in Wallasey, Cheshire, England, to Rossell Casson Robbins, formerly of Liverpool, England, and Alice Eveline Hope Robbins, formerly of Kirkcudbright, Scotland. He began his education at Wallasey Grammar School, 1921-30, then proceeded to the University of Liverpool, where in 1933, as a student of J.

Grattan, he received, with first class honors Rossell Hope Robbins was born on July 22, 1912, in Wallasey, Cheshire, England, to Rossell Casson Robbins, formerly of Liverpool, England, and Alice Eveline Hope Robbins, formerly of Kirkcudbright, Scotland. He began his education at Wallasey Grammar School, 1921-30, then proceeded to the University of Liverpool, where in 1933, as a student of J. Grattan, he received, with first class honors, his B.A. In English Language and Literature. In 1934 he received his diploma of education from the School of Education, Liverpool. During this period of his life Robbins also trained in music at the Matthay School of Music, Liverpool Branch (1930-36), receiving his licentiate from the Guildhall School of Music, London, in 1932.

He was a member of the London Verse Speaking Choir under the direction of Marjorie Gullan from 1935-37. This early interest in music and verse has remained with him all his life. His dissertation and three of his earliest scholarly books dealt with the lyric in English, and, in 1961, Columbia University Press published his Early English Christmas Carols in a handsome gift edition with music, illustrations, and an LP record. In 1934 Robbins was admitted to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, on an Open External Studentship to proceed to his doctorate. Download Film A Crazy Little Thing Called Love 720p more.

He was supported by a Wallasey Borough Research Scholarship and the University of Liverpool Graduate Scholarship. He received his Ph.D. In literature in 1937 as a student of G.

In that year he was awarded a Commonwealth Fellowship by the Harkness Foundation, which brought him to America. (He became a naturalized citizen in 1944.) Here, he continued his work on Middle English Lyrics at New York University with Carleton Brown, work which is still acknowledged as the best of its kind. “The words witch and witchcraft, in everyday usage for over a thousand years, have undergone several changes of meaning; and today witchcraft, having reverted to its original connotation of magic and sorcery, does not convey the precise and limited definition it once had during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. If witchcraft had never meant anything more than the craft of 'an old, weather-beaten crone.' Europe would not have suffered, for three centuries from 1450 to 1750, the shocking nightmare, the foulest crime and the deepest shame of western civilization, the blackout of everything that homo sapiens, the reasoning man, has ever upheld. This book is about that shame.degradation stifled decency, the filthiest passions masqueraded under the cover of religion, and man's intellect was subverted to condone bestialities that even Swift's Yahoos would blush. Never were so many wrong, so long.” —.

“Throughout these centuries, those who should, by their birth, training, and position, have been the conscience of the world, accepted the delusion and promoted it. Such men not only appealed to the emotions of religion, but perverted the entire structure of logic and reason. Everything was sacrificed to a preconceived prejudice. The logic of the Demonologists, all highly educated men, leaders in their own disciplines, is the most terrifying feature of witchcraft.

Because of their turning rational thinking on its head--far more than the most foul act of a torturer or witch judge--the centuries of the witchcraft mania may be called the centuries of uncivilization.” —.