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...Werewolf in Washington Square" - a Russian noblewoman who before Seabrook's own two eyes in 1923 was hypnotized into lycanthropy and loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mumble-Jumble | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

...adventure in which Seabrook, using black magic and a nail-studded doll, al most killed a French wizard who had cast a deadly spell over Mrs. Seabrook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mumble-Jumble | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

Last week Willie Seabrook, 54, announced: "I have outgrown . . . the attitude of willing and romantic wonder which characterized some of my earlier books." Between the covers of Witchcraft he has swept the years' litter of a disordered desk: a theory, anecdotes, old magazine articles, scraps from history, leftover items from former books, newspaper clippings, remarks on extrasensory perception-everything, in fact, but his blotter and pencils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mumble-Jumble | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

...Seabrook's theory: witchcraft (black magic) is potent, can kill by autosuggestion, just as psychotherapy (white magic) can rid folk of fancy-induced but very real ills. Corollaries: 1) the witch's victim must fear, perhaps unconsciously, the power of magic; 2) witchcraft can affect only human beings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mumble-Jumble | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

Bits of entrail from the Seabrook cauldron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mumble-Jumble | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

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