Word: summersâ
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY?Montague Summers???Knopf ($5). Witches and sorcerers were the starved souls and anarchists of their heyday?from the 12th Century to the 18th. They existed, feared by King and peasant, fought by Pope and priest?at first in furtive bands, then in leagues more potent for evil than the once dread Maffia. What were they? With a definition the author rips off the cloak of Devildom and leaves his subject naked as a pair of tongs: "A sorcerer (or witch) is one who by commerce with the Devil has a full intention of attaining...
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