Witchcraft & Magic - Ultimate Collection

by William Godwin, Cotton Mather, Howard Williams

"WITCHCRAFT & MAGIC" is a carefully assembled collection of 27 books about witchery, witch trials, demonology and spiritualism.
The book is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:
Introduction:
The Superstitions of Witchcraft
The Devil in Britain and America
Witchcraft in Europe:
History of Magic and Witchcraft:
Magic and Witchcraft
Lives of the Necromancers
Witch, Warlock, and Magician
Irish Witchcraft and Demonology
Practitioners of Magic & Witchcraft and Clairvoyance
Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch
Sidonia, the Sorceress
La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages
Tales & Legends:
Witchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland
Witch Stories
Studies:
The Witch Mania
The Witch-cult in Western Europe
Witchcraft and Superstitious Record in the South-Western District of Scotland
Modern Magic
Witchcraft in America:
Salem Trials:
The Wonders of the Invisible World
Salem Witchcraft
Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather
A Short History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Trials
An Account of the Witchcraft Delusion at Salem in 1682
House of John Procter, Witchcraft Martyr, 1692
Studies:
The Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism
The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697)
Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism
On Witchcraft:
Glimpses of the Supernatural – Witchcraft and Necromancy
Letters On Demonology And Witchcraft

8032 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 4, 2019

About the author

William Godwin was the son and grandson of strait-laced Calvinist ministers. Strictly-raised, he followed in paternal footsteps, becoming a minister by age 22. His reading of atheist d'Holbach and others caused him to lose both his belief in the doctrine of eternal damnation, and his ministerial position. Through further reading, Godwin gradually became godless. He promoted anarchism (but not anarchy). His Political Justice and The Enquirer (1793) argued for morality without religion, causing a scandal. He followed that philosophical book with a trail-blazing fictional adventure-detective story, Caleb Williams (1794), to introduce readers to his ideas in a popular format. Godwin, a leading thinker and author ranking in his day close to Thomas Paine, was enormously influential among famous peers.

He and Mary Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, secretly married in 1797. She died tragically after giving birth to daughter Mary in 1797. Godwin's loving but candid biography of his wife, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798), further scandalized society. Godwin, caring not only for the baby Mary, but her half-sister Fanny, remarried. He and his second wife opened a bookshop for children. Godwin, out of necessity, became a proficient author of children's books, employing a pseudonym due to his notoriety. His daughter Mary, at 16, famously ran off with poet Percy Shelley, whose Necessity of Atheism was influenced by Godwin. Mary's novel Frankenstein also paid homage to her father's views. Godwin's life was marked by poverty and further domestic tragedies. Godwin's prized manuscript attacked the Christian religion and was intended to free the mind from slavery. The Genius of Christianity Unveiled: in a Series of Essays was published only many years after his death.